Durnyam Mashurova

Mother's Testament (eBook, ePUB)

Übersetzer: Thomson, Robin

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Mehriban is born into an Uighur family in a village in eastern Kazakhstan in which everybody works on the local collective farm. She tells of the people among whom she grows up, and in particular of the women - daughters, sisters, mothers, aunts, grandmothers - their lives and loves, their resilience in the face of bereavement, injustice, hunger and cold, their folk wisdom and their irrepressible spirit.

Covering three generations, from the Stalinist repressions of the 1930s and the Great Patriotic War through to the chaos of perestroika and the new order following independence, A Mother's Testament is an intimate and richly drawn portrait of life and customs in those times, told through a cast of memorable characters. It is also the tale of how Mehriban comes to write the story down and of how she follows her own daughter far from the village into the unknown, and realises her own true destiny.

A Mother's Testament is at once the semi-autobiographical story of a people forced to display great strength in the face of changing fortunes and a saga of universal appeal that will not fail to move readers everywhere.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: David Mashuri
• Seitenzahl: 438
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Dezember 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780578437323
• Artikelnr.: 56506043

Autorenporträt

Mother's Testament, a novel, in which I put my whole heart, went a very long way. I dreamed of writing it from my early childhood, listening to the stories of my loved ones, who survived humiliation, deprivation, injustice, but kept their dignity, thirst for life and love. I also had a hard time in childhood. I grew up in a poor peasant family with seven children. In my home village in rural Kazakhstan, there was only an elementary school, so I had to go to a secondary school in the city of Zharkent. Every day we walked for 7 kilometers to school and 7 kilometers back to the village in the heat of summer and in freezing cold of winter. During winters, when the temperature could be minus 30 degrees Celsius, we would be wearing raggedy clothes, and light boots on our feet would be clogged with snow. Once I fell into the water and wet my feet. Of course, I caught a cold and the disease became complicated by meningitis, because of which I had to miss school for 3 years. Despite these and other difficulties later in life, I followed my dream to write a book about my village, about my people. I was able to publish it in Uighur language only at 67 and English, when I turned 75, but I am grateful that it came out at the right time, when I was able to look at many things differently and accept people as who they are.