Articles liés à The Devils' Dance

Ismailov, Hamid The Devils' Dance ISBN 13 : 9781911284130

The Devils' Dance - Couverture souple

 
9781911284130: The Devils' Dance
Afficher les exemplaires de cette édition ISBN
 
 
Présentation de l'éditeur :

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, when English and Russian spies infiltrated the courts of Central Asia, has echoes in the 1930s present, but as his identification with his protagonist increases and past and present overlap it seems that Abdulla's inability to tell fact from fiction will be his undoing.

The Devils' Dance brings to life the extraordinary culture of 19th century Turkestan, a world of lavish poetry recitals, brutal polo matches, and a cosmopolitan and culturally diverse Islam rarely described in western literature. Hamid Ismailov's virtuosic prose recreates this multilingual milieu in a digressive, intricately structured novel, dense with allusion, studded with quotes and sayings, and threaded through with modern and classical poetry.

With this poignant, loving resurrection of both a culture and a literary canon brutally suppressed by a dictatorship which continues today, Ismailov demonstrates yet again his masterful marriage of contemporary international fiction and the Central Asian literary traditions, and his deserved position in the pantheon of both.
Biographie de l'auteur :
Born in 1954 in Tokmok, Kyrgyzstan, Hamid Ismailov is an Uzbek journalist and writer who was forced to flee Uzbekistan in 1992 due to what the state dubbed `unacceptable democratic tendencies'. He came to the United Kingdom, where he took a job with the BBC World Service. His works are banned in Uzbekistan. Several of his Russian-original novels have been published in English translation, including The Railway, The Dead Lake, which was long listed for the 2015 Independent Foreign Fiction Prize, and The Underground. The Devils' Dance is the first of his Uzbek language novels to appear in English.

Les informations fournies dans la section « A propos du livre » peuvent faire référence à une autre édition de ce titre.

  • ÉditeurTilted Axis Press
  • Date d'édition2018
  • ISBN 10 1911284134
  • ISBN 13 9781911284130
  • ReliureBroché
  • Nombre de pages416
  • Evaluation vendeur
EUR 21,93

Autre devise

Frais de port : EUR 30,75
De Royaume-Uni vers Etats-Unis

Destinations, frais et délais

Ajouter au panier

Meilleurs résultats de recherche sur AbeBooks

Image d'archives

Hamid Ismailov
Edité par Tilted Axis Press, London (2018)
ISBN 10 : 1911284134 ISBN 13 : 9781911284130
Neuf Paperback Original Signé Quantité disponible : 1
Vendeur :
Fiction First
(Congleton, Royaume-Uni)
Evaluation vendeur

Description du livre Paperback Original. Etat : New. Second. A fine unread second impression of a paperback original. Translated from the Uzbek by Donald Rayfield. Signed and dated 29/05/19 by the Author and also signed by the translator on the title page. Signed at the Hay Festival. Signed by Author & Translator. N° de réf. du vendeur 008783

Plus d'informations sur ce vendeur | Contacter le vendeur

Acheter neuf
EUR 21,93
Autre devise

Ajouter au panier

Frais de port : EUR 30,75
De Royaume-Uni vers Etats-Unis
Destinations, frais et délais
Image d'archives

Hamid Ismailov
Edité par Tilted Axis Press (2018)
ISBN 10 : 1911284134 ISBN 13 : 9781911284130
Neuf Couverture souple Quantité disponible : 1
Vendeur :
Front Cover Books
(Denver, CO, Etats-Unis)
Evaluation vendeur

Description du livre Etat : new. N° de réf. du vendeur FrontCover1911284134

Plus d'informations sur ce vendeur | Contacter le vendeur

Acheter neuf
EUR 65,76
Autre devise

Ajouter au panier

Frais de port : EUR 4,02
Vers Etats-Unis
Destinations, frais et délais
Image d'archives

Hamid Ismailov
Edité par Tilted Axis Press (2018)
ISBN 10 : 1911284134 ISBN 13 : 9781911284130
Neuf Paperback Quantité disponible : 1
Vendeur :
GoldenDragon
(Houston, TX, Etats-Unis)
Evaluation vendeur

Description du livre Paperback. Etat : new. Buy for Great customer experience. N° de réf. du vendeur GoldenDragon1911284134

Plus d'informations sur ce vendeur | Contacter le vendeur

Acheter neuf
EUR 66,91
Autre devise

Ajouter au panier

Frais de port : EUR 3,04
Vers Etats-Unis
Destinations, frais et délais
Image d'archives

Hamid Ismailov
Edité par Tilted Axis Press (2018)
ISBN 10 : 1911284134 ISBN 13 : 9781911284130
Neuf Paperback Quantité disponible : 1
Vendeur :
GoldBooks
(Denver, CO, Etats-Unis)
Evaluation vendeur

Description du livre Paperback. Etat : new. New Copy. Customer Service Guaranteed. N° de réf. du vendeur think1911284134

Plus d'informations sur ce vendeur | Contacter le vendeur

Acheter neuf
EUR 243,46
Autre devise

Ajouter au panier

Frais de port : EUR 3,97
Vers Etats-Unis
Destinations, frais et délais
Image d'archives

Hamid Ismailov
Edité par Tilted Axis Press (2018)
ISBN 10 : 1911284134 ISBN 13 : 9781911284130
Neuf Paperback Quantité disponible : 1
Vendeur :
Wizard Books
(Long Beach, CA, Etats-Unis)
Evaluation vendeur

Description du livre Paperback. Etat : new. New. N° de réf. du vendeur Wizard1911284134

Plus d'informations sur ce vendeur | Contacter le vendeur

Acheter neuf
EUR 244,89
Autre devise

Ajouter au panier

Frais de port : EUR 3,27
Vers Etats-Unis
Destinations, frais et délais