Manaschi, A Modernist Novel Inspired by Central Asia's Oldest Epic

Manaschi is a powerful book that lies at the nexus between the individual and the culture they are born into.

Hamid Ismailov's Manaschi is a magnetic novel about the bard-shamans at the heart of Kyrgyzstan's myths

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