Chingiz Aitmatov

" . . . a rewarding book." --Times Literary Supplement Set in the vast windswept Central Asian steppes and the infinite reaches of galactic space, this powerful novel offers a vivid view of the culture and values of the Soviet Union's Central Asian peoples.

The Day Lasts More Than a Hundred Years

Day Lasts More Than a Hundred Years

The First Teacher

O Navio Branco

Djamila

Beyaz gemi

И дольше века длится день. Плаха

Ilga kaip šimtmečiai diena

Cemile / Öğretmen Duyşen

In a primeval forest cut off from the rest of the world, a seven-year-old boy and six adults are living. The boy is isolated and lonesome. A connoisseur of folk tales, old Maumoon serves as a substitute for his parents. A world of tales and beautiful legends as perceived by the impressionable child prone to fantastic perceptions of reality conflicts with the harsh existence of adults engrossed in their own problems.

The White Ship

Toprak ana

Deniz Kıyısında Koşan Ala Köpek

Refik Özdek

Gün olur asra bedel

Daisaku Ikeda

“There is life hidden within stones. Only we human beings can give meaning to all things in the cosmos through thought and words." With these haunting and resonant words did Kyrgyz writer and novelist Chingiz Aitmatov, who died in June 2008, summarize the dialogue that he undertook with leading Buddhist leader Daisaku Ikeda. Aitmatov is best known for his novella Jamila, on the publication of which he achieved great fame in the Soviet Union in 1958. But after the Soviet Union's collapse, this writer, who is often lauded as one of the great Soviet authors, felt that his work had been passed over. Ode to the Grand Spirit is both an enduring tribute to the thought of a powerful writer and a fascinating individual as well as a profound reflection on such themes of the process of literary creation, spiritual growth and the essence of humanity.

A Dialogue

Ode to the Grand Spirit

Chinghiz Aitmatov is truly one of the greatest writers of the century. His works have been translated into more than 176 languages ​​in the world, published in 128 countries, sold more than 100 million copies. Only the story "Jamila", which brought world fame Aitmatov, was reprinted in German 37 times! According to UNESCO, he is considered one of the most widely read and published by the writers of the XX century.Proceedings of Chingiz Aitmatov written in plain language accessible to any reader, but it raised questions affect human values, they make everyone think about the love for all living things, to nature, to the person, as well as the conscience and justice.Events in the works of Aitmatov's happening on the ground and in space, in the mountains and steppes, the sea, and over the ocean, in the life of a Muslim and a Christian. They cover almost the entire world.In his works he rejects and condemns historical forgetfulness, for the first time even introduced concepts such as mankurtism, lack of spirituality, ignorance and greed, for a deficit of conscience can lead to the most sophisticated anti-social actions

Farewell, Gul'sary!

Sultanmurat

Mukhtar Shakhanov

This edition is Mukhtar Shahanov's authorized reprint of Walter May translation of "The Plaint of the Hunter Above the Abyss" book initially published by Atamura in 1998. This is a book-dialogue between two famous pundits, the renowned Kirghizian novelist Chingiz Aitmatov and the legendary Kazakh poet Mukhtar Shakhanov - defending their fundamental faith in the spiritual resources of each and every human being. As such, they explore the moral significance of endlessly recurrent existential dislocations characterising everyone's sense of Personalist encounter with the world around them. A discussion taking them through the riddles posed by ancient philosophies, Turkic histories, African priest-magicians, two-fanged poisonous fish, modern zombism, and Genghis Khan's Golden Hoard: all the way to power politics in the Kremlin, the risks taken by Premier Mikhail Gorbachev as well as the duties, not to mention the obligations, of writers serving in the sphere of international public affairs.

THE PLIGHT OF A POSTMODERN HUNTER

Ali Özgentürk

Selvi boylum al yazmalım

The dramatic fate of a simple Kyrgyz woman Tolgonay, who lost her husband and three sons in the Great Patriotic War. The war took from Tolgonai the people most dear and close to her heart, an echo of which was the death of her beloved daughter-in-law Tolgonai. But the persistent woman did not break, her loving heart did not coarsen, because next to her the sprout of new life is the son of Aliman.

Mother Earth

Chingiz Aitmatov

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