A life at noon
By: by Talasbek Asemkulov ; translated by Shelley Fairweather-Vega
Contributors: Fairweather-Vega, Shelley, translator
Publisher: Three String Books
Published: 2019
Place of publication: Bloomington, Indiana
Language: eng
Number of pages: 210
ISBN-13: 9780893575007
Subjects: Fiction
Work titles: Taltus
Description: "Azhigerei is growing up in Soviet Kazakhstan, learning the ancient art of the kuy from his musician father. But with the music comes knowledge about his country, his family, and the past that is at times difficult to bear. Based on the author's own family history, A Life at Noon provides us a glimpse into a time and place Western literature has rarely seen as the first post-Soviet novel from Kazakhstan to appear in English"--
Notes: Novel.