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[bibliobethblog]

Hello everyone and hope you’re having a grand weekend. Last Saturday it was all about the heat with my #summerstack and this #stacksaturday I’m cooling off a bit with my #icestack 🧊 The Smallest Man - Frances Quinn A Gathering Light - Jennifer Donnelly Madness Explained - Richard P Bentall Of Strangers And Bees - Hamid Ismailov Weather - Jennifer Offill Fragile - Sarah Hilary I haven’t read any of these books so I’m counting on you to tell me all about them if you’ve read them in the comments down below! Have a great weekend everyone! 🤗😘 #bookstagram #booksinthegarden #scottishbookstagrammer #booksandplantsofinstagram #thesmallestman #francesquinn #agatheringlight #jenniferdonnelly #madnessexplained #richardpbentall #ofstrangersandbees #hamidismailov #translatedfiction #tiltedaxispress #weather #jennyoffill #fragile #sarahhilary #booksineedtoread https://www.instagram.com/p/Cg7V0pjLvN9/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[descaslibrary]

I've been in love with Hamid Ismailov since I read his The Devil Dance. His writing is never ever easy to be read or to be understood and often require a reread but they're always worth reading. Manaschi is without exception. It follows a young man- a radio presenter who returns to his home village in the border between Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan after the death of his uncle. He is then inspired by a dream to become a Manaschi, a reciter of the epic poem, Manas. This brings a series of long-held rivalries between the neighbouring communities flare up. The readers will also giggle while reading the part where the local will have to interact with the Chinese community with their limited ability to communicate. You will see also a bit if the cultural things in which they consider their hunting eagles or horses as their family members. Manaschi to me comes as the story that covers various things: tradition and modernity, shamanism and Islam, Turkish and Farsi. Throughout the book, Ismailov shows these narratives shapes our identity, how culture is created or destroyed, and how boundaries can be reinforced or transcended. A book to enjoy, both for the story and the unfamiliar culture of the setting. Des ✨ #bookishindonesia #bookaholic #bookstagram #bookstagramindonesia #bibliophile #bookreview #bookreviewer #booknerd #bookaddict #bookblogger #bookaesthetic #bookblogger #bookenthusiast #booksbooksbooks #descalibrary #descareading2022 #fictionbook #literaturejunkie #nonfiction #igreads #igbook #instaread #instabooks #ReadTheWorld2022 #riotgrams #BookstagramReels #Uzbekistan #ReadTiltedAxis #HamidIsmailov #Manaschi (at Bangkok Thailand) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cff7idwLaoM/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[restlessbooks]

We’re thrilled to announce that our author Hamid Ismailov, a novelist, reporter, poet, translator, and BBC writer in residence whose works include The Railway, A Poet and Bin-Laden, and The Underground, will be making a rare U.S. appearance for the Restless Books Brooklyn Book Festival Bookends Event this fall. Of his choice to write fiction deemed “subversive,” (eventually forcing him to flee Uzbekistan under threat of arrest), Ismailov has said “My first novel was in Uzbek. I showed the novel to an older writer who had lived through Stalin’s purges. He told me, ‘This will never be published. You’ll be arrested. You need to drop this and write in Russian.’ I realized that, because of my experience, I was holding an entire civilization in my hands. I knew the Soviet experience, and its aftermath, from so many perspectives. The whole civilization was exploding inside me and it started to come out in the form of novels.” Ismailov will be in conversation with the Brooklyn-based Russian writer and critic Boris Fishman, author of the acclaimed novel A Replacement Life , for what promises to be a lively evening of cocktails, gourmet Russian cuisine, and discussion of the state of contemporary Russian literature and society at Karloff. We hope you’ll join us for this very special gathering and encourage you to reserve tickets early, as space is limited. 

[bibliobethblog]

Hello everyone and hope your weekend has got off to a great start! I’m spending a morning in bed (reading obviously 🙄😂) after a hectic week at work. It was made all better by going to see Dylan Moran (Irish comedian) last night on his tour. I’m going to try and do a stack post later but for now, here’s a book haul! I wish I’d plumped for the beautiful hardback of Cecily 😩 but here is the next best thing, the paperback! Told through the eyes of its greatest unseen protagonist, Cecily is an astonishing debut that plunges you into the exhilaration of the first days of the Wars of the Roses, a war as women fight it. Secondly, another beautiful @tiltedaxisbooks translated fiction book, Of Strangers And Bees by Hamid Ismailov, translated by Shelley Fairweather-Vega. Described as a thrilling, multi-stranded epic this novel traces the fate of the medieval polymath Avicenna who shaped Islamic thought and science for centuries. Finally, we have King Of Rabbits. This book has been on my radar for a little while, it’s described as a brilliantly crafted story of class and race and the failure of society to catch the children who fall through the cracks. I’d love to know your thoughts on any of these books or authors. Let’s have a chat in the comments! #bookstagram #bookstagrammer #bookhaul #bookhoarder #booknuts #bookobsessed #paperbackhaul #cecily #anniegarthwaite #ofstrangersandbees #hamidismailov #shelleyfairweathervega #tiltedaxispress #translatedfiction #historicalfiction #thewaroftheroses #kingofrabbits #karlaneblett #literaryfiction #givemeallthebooks #booksrightnow https://www.instagram.com/p/CcIHcR1rpkJ/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=