The Devils' Dance (Paperback)
Ismailov, Hamid (Author)
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On 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 attempts to mentally reconstruct the novel he was writing at the time of his arrest - based on the tragic life of the Uzbek poet-queen Oyhon, married to three khans in succession, and living as Abdulla now does, with the threat of execution hanging over her. As he gets to know his cellmates, Abdulla discovers that the Great Game of Oyhon's time, ...
ISBN (SKU)
9781911284130
Pages
412
Weight
386g
Dimensions
198x129x31
Imprint
Tilted Axis Press
Published
01, March, 2018
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