Research Catalog

Title

The devils' dance / Hamid Ismailov ; translated by Donald Rayfield ; poems translated by John Farndon.

Author

Ismailov, Hamid, 1954-

Publication

London : Tilted Axis Press, [2017].

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Details

Additional Authors

• Rayfield, Donald, 1942-
• Farndon, John

Description

412 pages; 20 cm

Summary

"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 himself from the physical and psychological torment of beatings and mindless interrogations, he attempts to mentally reconstruct the novel he was writing at the time of his arrest - based on the tragic life of the Uzbek poet-queen Oyhon, married to three khans in succession, and living as Abdulla now does, with the threat of execution hanging over her. As he gets to know his cellmates, Abdulla discovers that the Great Game of Oyhon's time, when English and Russian spies infiltrated the courts of Central Asia, has echoes in the 1930s present, but as his identification with his protagonist increases and past and present overlap it seems that Abdulla's inability to tell fact from fiction will be his undoing. The Devils' Dance - banned in Uzbekistan for twenty-seven years - brings to life the extraordinary culture of 19th century Turkestan, a world of lavish poetry recitals, brutal polo matches, and a cosmopolitan and culturally diverse Islam rarely described in western literature."--Publisher's description.

Uniform Title

Jinlar basmi yoxud katta o'yin. English

Alternative Title

Jinlar basmi yoxud katta o'yin.

Subject

• 1800-1899
• Authors, Uzbek > Fiction
• Prisoners > Uzbekistan > Tashkent > Fiction
• Authorship > Fiction
• Authors, Uzbek
• Authorship
• Asia, Central > History > 19th century > Fiction
• Tashkent (Uzbekistan) > Fiction
• Asia, Central
• Uzbekistan
• Uzbekistan > Tashkent

Genre/Form

• Psychological fiction.
• Historical fiction.
• Uzbek fiction.
• Fiction.
• History.

Note

• First published in Uzbek as Jinlar basmi yoxud katta o'yin by Akademnashr, Tashkent, 2016.
• "7"--Spine.

Language (note)

• Translated from the Uzbek.

Call Number

JFD 18-3261

ISBN

• 9781911284130
• 1911284134

OCLC

1033561066

Author

Ismailov, Hamid, 1954- author.

Title

The devils' dance / Hamid Ismailov ; translated by Donald Rayfield ; poems translated by John Farndon.

Publisher

London : Tilted Axis Press, [2017].

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Language

Translated from the Uzbek.

Chronological Term

1800-1899

Added Author

Rayfield, Donald, 1942- translator.

Farndon, John, translator.

Research Call Number

JFD 18-3261