Birds’ Books uses Uzbek author Hamid Ismailov's The Railway, one of the rare contemporary Central Asian novels translated into English, as a jumping off point for a discussion of Central Asian literature, language, translation, and the impact of modernism and the Soviet Union on Central Asia.
Central Asia: Literature in Translation
· Written by Nathan Hamm
Categories: Central Asia & Caucasus, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, History, Language, Literature