Stone Dreams - A Novel-Requiem

Amid ethnic violence, political corruption, and petty professional
intrigue, an artist tries to live free of lies.

Info autore

Akram Aylisli is an Azerbaijani writer, playwright,
novelist, and editor. His works have been translated from his native Azeri into
more than 20 languages. The 2012 publication of his novella Stone Dreams led to
book burnings and the continuous harassment of the author himself. Since 2016
he has lived under a politically motivated criminal investigation and
corresponding restrictions on his activities in Baku, Azerbaijan.
Katherine E. Young is the
author of the poetry collections Woman Drinking Absinthe and Day
of the Border Guards and the editor of Written in Arlington. She
is the translator of work by Anna Starobinets (memoir), Akram Aylisli (fiction),
and numerous Russophone poets. Young was named a 2017 National Endowment for
the Art translation fellow. From 2016-2018, she served as the inaugural Poet
Laureate for Arlington, Virginia.

Riassunto

Amid ethnic violence, political corruption, and petty professional intrigue, an artist tries to live free of lies.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Akram Aylisli
• Con la collaborazione di: Katherine E. Young (Traduzione)
• Editore: Ingram Publishers Services
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 16.08.2022
• EAN: 9781644699133
• ISBN: 978-1-64469-913-3
• Pagine: 144
• Dimensioni: 140 mm x 210 mm x 9 mm
• Peso: 12 g
• Serie: Central Asian Literatures in Translation
• Categorie: Narrativa > Romanzi; Saggistica > Storia > Altro; Central Asia, Armenia, 21st century, c 2000 to c 2100, Azerbaijan, Modern and contemporary fiction, Genocide and ethnic cleansing, Political oppression and persecution, Violence, intolerance and persecution in history