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The Railway by Hamid Ismailov
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.49Set 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... -
The Underground by Hamid Ismailov 9781632060440
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £12.43'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... -
Manaschi by Hamid Ismailov 9781911284574
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.40In 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... -
The Devils' Dance by Hamid Ismailov 9781911284130
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.37Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of EBRD Literature Prize 2019.Book InformationISBN 9781911284130Author Hamid IsmailovFormat -
A Poet and Bin-Laden by Hamid Ismailov 9781909156302
RRP: £31.99Booksplease Price: £24.44The "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... -
A Poet and Bin-Laden by Hamid Ismailov 9781909156333
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £15.70The 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... -
Gaia, Queen of Ants by Hamid Ismailov 9780815611158
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £12.89From 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... -
We Computers: A Ghazal Novel by Hamid Ismailov 9780300272741
Booksplease Price: £20.00Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Of Strangers and Bees: A Hayy ibn Yaqzan Tale by Hamid Ismailov 9781911284369
Booksplease Price: £13.37In the latest thrilling multi-stranded epic from the award-winning author of The Devils' Dance, an Uzbek writer in exile traces the fate of the medieval polymath Avicenna, who shaped Islamic thought... -
Postcolonial Identities in Central Asian and Caucasian Literature Tamar Koplatadze 9780198974062
RRP: £88.00Booksplease Price: £80.79Decoloniality has emerged as one of the most prominent subjects of public and academic debates of our time, bringing to the fore the post-colonial perspectives of previously underrepresented groups... -
Life and Fate by Vasily Grossman 9781841594033
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £15.05Based around the pivotal WWII battle of Stalingrad (1942-3), where the German advance into Russia was eventually halted by the Red Army, and around an extended family, the Shaposhnikovs, and... -
Jamilia by Chingiz Aitmatov 9781846590320
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £6.16Jamilia's husband is off fighting at the front. She spends her days hauling sacks of grain from the threshing floor to the train station in their small village in the Caucasus, accompanied by Seit,... -
Letters to Another Room by Ravil Bukharaev
Booksplease Price: £46.49This is a beautiful translation by John Farndon (with Olga Nakston) of the late Ravil Bukharaev's literary existential novel memoir in which he explains to his wife how his Muslim faith and ideals... -
Life And Fate (Vintage Classic Russians Series) by Vasily Grossman 9781784871963
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £12.21Life and Fate is an epic tale of twentieth-century Russia told through the fate of a single family, the Shaposhnikovs, from the Sunday Times bestselling author of Stalingrad.As the battle of... -
Chevengur Andrey Platonov 9781784879150
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.46'Platonov is an extraordinary writer, perhaps the most brilliant Russian writer of the twentieth century' New York Review of BooksThe Soviet Don Quixote, Chevengur is now seen by many Russian writers...