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Railway

Ismailov Hamid
Heftet / 2007 / Engelsk

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9780099466130
Publisert
2007
Utgiver
Vendor
Vintage
Vekt
233 gr
Høyde
198 mm
Bredde
130 mm
Dybde
20 mm
Aldersnivå
01, G, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
336

Forfatter
Ismailov Hamid
Oversetter
Chandler Robert

Biographical note

Hamid Ismailov, regarded as a man of 'unacceptably democratic tendencies' in Uzbekistan, was forced to flee his homeland, and so came to London in 1992. He was recruited by the BBC World Service to set up its Central Asia Service. He has published many books both in Russia and in Uzbekistan. The Railway and A Poet and Bin-Laden are the only two to have been translated into English.

Railway

Ismailov Hamid
Heftet / 2007 / Engelsk
Ismailov Hamid
Heftet / 2007 / Engelsk
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A wonderfully engaging novel

- Melissa McClements, Financial Times

Imagine Márquez's <i>One Hundred Years of Solitude</i> on the empty plains of central Asia...<i>The Railway</i> is a bold and inventive, if damning, whirl through Central Asia's 20th-century history

- Charlotte Hobson, Daily Telegraph

It is a work of rare beauty - <b>an</b> <b>utterly readable, compelling book</b>

- Craig Murray, New Statesman

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A poet's novel, full of memorable descriptive passages and heart-wrenching asides

Independent

All picaresque exuberance, a jumble of influences from Persian to Soviet and beyond

- Catherine Lockerbie, Sunday Herald

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, the chief of police; and Umarali-Moneybags, the old moneylender. Their colourful lives offer a unique and comic picture of a little-known land populated by outgoing Mullahs, incoming Bolsheviks, and a plethora of Uzbeks, Russians, Persians, Jews, Koreans, Tatars and Gypsies. At the heart of both the town and the novel stands the railway station - a source of income and influence, and a connection to the greater world beyond the town. Rich and picaresque, The Railway chronicles the dramatic changes felt throughout Central Asia in the early twentieth century.
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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. At the heart of both the town and the novel stands the railway station - a source of income and influence, and a connection to the greater world beyond the town.
Les mer
A vibrant, multi-cultural and surreal satire set in Uzbekistan in the mid-twentieth century.

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A wonderfully engaging novel

- Melissa McClements, Financial Times

Imagine Márquez's <i>One Hundred Years of Solitude</i> on the empty plains of central Asia...<i>The Railway</i> is a bold and inventive, if damning, whirl through Central Asia's 20th-century history

- Charlotte Hobson, Daily Telegraph

It is a work of rare beauty - <b>an</b> <b>utterly readable, compelling book</b>

- Craig Murray, New Statesman

Se alle

A poet's novel, full of memorable descriptive passages and heart-wrenching asides

Independent

All picaresque exuberance, a jumble of influences from Persian to Soviet and beyond

- Catherine Lockerbie, Sunday Herald

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, the chief of police; and Umarali-Moneybags, the old moneylender. Their colourful lives offer a unique and comic picture of a little-known land populated by outgoing Mullahs, incoming Bolsheviks, and a plethora of Uzbeks, Russians, Persians, Jews, Koreans, Tatars and Gypsies. At the heart of both the town and the novel stands the railway station - a source of income and influence, and a connection to the greater world beyond the town. Rich and picaresque, The Railway chronicles the dramatic changes felt throughout Central Asia in the early twentieth century.
Les mer
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. At the heart of both the town and the novel stands the railway station - a source of income and influence, and a connection to the greater world beyond the town.
Les mer
A vibrant, multi-cultural and surreal satire set in Uzbekistan in the mid-twentieth century.

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9780099466130
Publisert
2007
Utgiver
Vendor
Vintage
Vekt
233 gr
Høyde
198 mm
Bredde
130 mm
Dybde
20 mm
Aldersnivå
01, G, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
336

Forfatter
Ismailov Hamid
Oversetter
Chandler Robert

Biographical note

Hamid Ismailov, regarded as a man of 'unacceptably democratic tendencies' in Uzbekistan, was forced to flee his homeland, and so came to London in 1992. He was recruited by the BBC World Service to set up its Central Asia Service. He has published many books both in Russia and in Uzbekistan. The Railway and A Poet and Bin-Laden are the only two to have been translated into English.

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