A HUNDRED YEARS ON THE STEPPE - Alimzhanov, Bayangali
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This book contains three works by the renowned Kazakh author Bayangali Alimzhanov. The first and longest story is a riveting snapshot of twentieth century Kazakh history narrated by a hundred-year-old steppe dweller. In simple and powerful language, he relates his experiences of revolution, famine, terror, war and the gulag. He survives and lives to see his country's independence. The second work is a highly imaginative morality tale about a man who injects a 'conscience drug' into politicians and bullies. Ranging from sinister to humorous to uplifting, this story turns into an incisive…mehr

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Produktbeschreibung
This book contains three works by the renowned Kazakh author Bayangali Alimzhanov. The first and longest story is a riveting snapshot of twentieth century Kazakh history narrated by a hundred-year-old steppe dweller. In simple and powerful language, he relates his experiences of revolution, famine, terror, war and the gulag. He survives and lives to see his country's independence. The second work is a highly imaginative morality tale about a man who injects a 'conscience drug' into politicians and bullies. Ranging from sinister to humorous to uplifting, this story turns into an incisive critique of modern civilisation. The third story, 'a tale for children and youths,' is a historical legend of Khan Ablai the warrior. Together, these stories afford the western reader a rare and fascinating glimpse into Kazakh history and culture
Autorenporträt
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Bayangali Tokanovich Alimzhanov is a Kazakh poet, author, playwright, aqyn (improviser), zhyrshy, manaschi (performer of the epic poem, Manas) and Honoured Worker of Kazakhstan. The winner of the international Maldybaev prize of Kyrgyzstan, he was born on October 16th 1954 in Stepnyak in the Akmola Region and graduated from the Faculty of Philological at KazSU. The author of over forty books, four feature films and six documentaries, he has won the Republican Grand Prize twenty-two times and the Contest of Storytellers. He has also been a prize-winner at the International Manaschi Competition. In Kazakhstan, the collected works of Alimzhanov have been published in sixteen volumes. His works have been translated into English, Russian, Spanish, French, Arabic, Chinese, Japanese, German, Turkish, Uzbek, Kyrgyz, Karakalpak, Tatar, Bashkir, Uyghur, Udmurt and Mongolian. He writes mainly in Kazakh and Russian.