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.
10 Ebooks by Hamid Ismailov
Hamid Ismailov: The Dead Lake
A haunting Russian tale about the environmental legacy of the Cold War. Yerzhan grows up in a remote part of Soviet Kazakhstan where atomic weapons are tested. As a young boy he falls in love with th …
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€8.39
Hamid Ismailov: A Poet and Bin-Laden
The “reality novel” A Poet and Bin-Laden set in Central Asia at the turn of the 21st century against a swirling backdrop of Islamic fundamentalism in the Ferghana Valley and beyond, gives a first-han …
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€9.99
Hamid Ismailov: Gaia, Queen of Ants
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 ex …
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€19.99
Hamid Ismailov: Railway
Set mainly in Uzbekistan between 1900 and 1980, The Railway introduces to us the inhabitants of the small town of Gilas on the ancient Silk Route. Among those whose stories we hear are Mefody-Jurispr …
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€8.99
Hamid Ismailov: Wunderkind Erjan
Durch die Weite der Steppe Kasachstans fährt ratternd ein Zug. In ihm begegnen sich ein Reisender und Erjan, das Wunderkind. Der Knabe spielt mitten in dieser vom Zug durchquerten Einöde so virtuos a …
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German
€13.99
Hamid Ismailov: The Underground
Named one of “the best Russian novels of the 21st Century, ” The Underground is the unforgettable story of an abandoned mixed-race boy navigating the wondrous and terrifying city of Moscow before the …
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€14.99
Hamid Ismailov: The Railway
“In the steppe near Tashkent they came upon a never-ending ladder with wooden rungs and iron rails and that stretched across the earth from horizon to horizon … Whistling and thundering, a snake-li …
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€14.99
Hamid Ismailov: Of Strangers and Bees
East meets West in a modern Sufi parable about the search for truth ‘Learned, strange and charming.’ –– The Guardian In the latest thrilling multi-stranded epic from the award-winning author of The D …
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€11.49
Hamid Ismailov: The Devil’s Dance
Winner of the EBRD Literature Prize 2019 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 hi …
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€11.49
Hamid Ismailov: Manaschi
In his latest tragicomedy Hamid Ismailov interrogates the intersection between tradition and modernity. A former radio-presenter wrongly interprets one of his dreams and thinks that he has been initi …
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€11.49
