Sultan Raev is celebrated novelist, playwright, and former minister of culture of Kyrgyzstan. He is currently the head of the Turkic Writers' Union, an international arts organization. This is his first novel to be published in English. Shelley Fairweather-Vega is a professional translator in Seattle specializing in the poetry and prose of contemporary Central Asia. She is the translator of many novels, including Hamid Ismailov's Gaia, Queen of Ants.
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Engaging, well-written, lively and evocative." - Kagan Arik, University of Chicago "We have very few works of contemporary Central Asian literature available in English. The publication of this wonderful novel is therefore cause for celebration." - Adeeb Khalid, author of Central Asia: A New History from the Imperial Conquests to the Present