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19 produkter
We Computers
A Ghazal Novel
Häftad, 2025
184 kr
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A multilayered exploration of poetry, authorship, and digital intelligence by “a writer of immense poetic power” (The Guardian) Finalist, 2025 National Book Award, Translated Literature • A World Literature Today Notable Translation of 2025 “Many paths cross in Ismailov’s beautiful new work—poetry, …
Railway
Häftad, 2007
3,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
135 kr
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Set mainly in Uzbekistan between 1900 and 1980, The Railway introduces to us the inhabitants of the small town of Gilas on the ancient Silk Route. Among those whose stories we hear are Mefody-Jurisprudence, the town's alcoholic intellectual; Father Ioann, a Russian priest; Kara-Musayev the Younger, …
Gaia, Queen of Ants
Häftad, 2020
251 kr
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From Uzbek author-in-exile Hamid Ismailov comes a dark new parable of power, corruption, fraud, and deception. Ismailov narrates an intimate clash of civilizations as he follows the lives of three expatriates living in England. Domrul is a young Turk with vague and painful memories of ethnic strife …
Gaia, Queen of Ants
E-bok, 2020
299 kr
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From Uzbek author-in-exile Hamid Ismailov comes a dark new parable of power, corruption, fraud, and deception. Ismailov narrates an intimate clash of civilizations as he follows the lives of three expatriates living in England. Domrul is a young Turk with vague and painful memories of ethnic strife …
Underground
E-bok, 2015
272 kr
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Named one of “the best Russian novels of the 21st Century,” The Underground is the unforgettable story of an abandoned mixed-race boy navigating the wondrous and terrifying city of Moscow before the Soviet Union’s collapse. “I am Moscow’s underground son, the result of one too many nights on the …
Railway
E-bok, 2014
100 kr
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Set mainly in Uzbekistan between 1900 and 1980, The Railway introduces to us the inhabitants of the small town of Gilas on the ancient Silk Route. Among those whose stories we hear are Mefody-Jurisprudence, the town's alcoholic intellectual; Father Ioann, a Russian priest; Kara-Musayev the Younger, …
Underground
Häftad, 2015
259 kr
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'I am Moscow's underground son, the result of one too many nights on the town.' So begins the story of Mbobo, the precocious 12-year-old narrator of this captivating novel by exiled Uzbek author and BBC journalist Hamid Ismailov. Born to a Siberian woman and an African athlete who came to compete …
Googling for Soul
A Novel in Short Stories
Av Hamid Ismailov, John Farndon
Häftad, 2026
261 kr
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Poet and Bin-Laden
Inbunden, 2012
558 kr
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The "reality novel" A Poet and Bin-Laden set in Central Asia at the turn of the 21st century against a swirling backdrop of Islamic fundamentalism in the Ferghana Valley and beyond, gives a first-hand account on the militants and Taliban's internal life. The novel begins on the eve of 9/11, with …
Poet and Bin-Laden
Häftad, 2012
417 kr
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The story begins on the eve of 9/11, with the narrator's haunting description of the airplane attack on the Twin Towers as seen on TV while he is on holiday in Central Asia. Subsequent chapters shift backwards and forwards in time, but two main themes emerge: the rise of the Islamic Movement of …
Poet and Bin-Laden
A Reality Novel
E-bok, 2018
152 kr
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The “reality novel” A Poet and Bin-Laden set in Central Asia at the turn of the 21st century against a swirling backdrop of Islamic fundamentalism in the Ferghana Valley and beyond, gives a first-hand account on the militants and Taliban’s internal life. The novel begins on the eve of 9/11, with …
Devil's Dance
E-bok, 2018
141 kr
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Winner of the EBRD Literature Prize 2019On New Years'' Eve 1938, the writer Abdulla Qodiriy is taken from his home by the Soviet secret police and thrown into a Tashkent prison. There, to distract himself from the physical and psychological torment of beatings and mindless interrogations, he …
Of Strangers and Bees
E-bok, 2019
138 kr
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East meets West in a modern Sufi parable about the search for truth"Learned, strange and charming." –– The GuardianIn the latest thrilling multi-stranded epic from the award-winning author of The Devils'' Dance, an Uzbek writer in exile follows in the footsteps of the medieval polymath Avicenna, …
Of Strangers and Bees
A Hayy ibn Yaqzan Tale
Häftad, 2019
244 kr
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From the winner of the EBRD Literature Prize, East meets West in a modern Sufi parable about the search for truth. 'Learned, strange and charming.' -- The Guardian. In the latest thrilling multi-stranded epic from the award-winning author of The Devils' Dance, an Uzbek writer in exile follows in …
Manaschi
E-bok, 2021
141 kr
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Finalist, Prix Jan Michalski de Littérature 2023Shortlisted, EBRD Literature Prize 2022In his latest tragicomedy Hamid Ismailov interrogates the interaction between tradition and modernity, myth and reality.A radio presenter interprets one of his dreams as an initiation by the world of spirits into …
Manaschi
Häftad, 2021
131 kr
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In his latest tragicomedy Hamid Ismailov interrogates the intersection between tradition and modernity. A former radio-presenter wrongly interprets one of his dreams and thinks that he has been initiated into the world of spirits as a manaschi, one of the Kyrgyz bards and healers reciting Manas - …
Wunderkind Erjan
E-bok, 2022
223 kr
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Durch die Weite der Steppe Kasachstans fährt ratternd ein Zug. In ihm begegnen sich ein Reisender und Erjan, das Wunderkind. Der Knabe spielt mitten in dieser vom Zug durchquerten Einöde so virtuos auf seiner Violine, dass nicht nur dem Erzähler Hören und Sagen vergeht. Doch die Musik bleibt nicht …
