Gaia, Queen of Ants

"Set partly in contemporary England and partly in in Soviet-era Central Asia, this novel follows the lives of Domrul, a young Meskhetian Turk with vague and painful memories of ethnic strife and political problems in the Uzbekistan of his childhood; Emer, his Irish girlfriend, the victim of a whole different set of ethnic conflicts; and an 80-year-old Russian-Uzbek client, Gaia, with a mysterious past"--

Über den Autor / die Autorin

Hamid Ismailov is an Uzbek novelist and poet who lives in exile in London. He is a journalist and project manager with the BBC World Service. A prolific writer of poetry and prose, Ismailov has been published in Uzbek, Russian, French, German, Turkish, English, and other languages. He is the author of many novels, including The Railway and The Underground.

Shelley Fairweather-Vega is a freelance translator in Seattle, Washington. She translates novels, poetry, and short stories for children and adults.

Zusammenfassung

From Uzbek author-in-exile Hamid Ismailov comes a dark new parable of power, corruption, fraud, and deception. Ismailov narrates an intimate clash of civilizations as he follows the lives of three expatriates living in England.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Shelley Fairweather-Vega, Hamid Ismailov, Hamid Fairweather-Vega Ismailov
• Mitarbeit: Shelley Fairweather-Vega (Übersetzung)
• Verlag: Syracuse University Press
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 30.11.2019
• EAN: 9780815611158
• ISBN: 978-0-8156-1115-8
• Seiten: 216
• Serien: Middle East Literature in Tran; Middle East Literature in Translation
• Thema: Belletristik > Erzählende Literatur