Stone Dreams : A Novel-Requiem EPUB
by Akram Aylisli
Part of the Central Asian Literatures in Translation series
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Amid ethnic violence, political corruption, and petty professionalintrigue, an artist tries to live free of lies.
Set during the last years of the Soviet Union, StoneDreams tells the story of Azerbaijani actor Sadai Sadygly, who landsin a Baku hospital while trying to protect an elderly Armenian man from a gangof young Azerbaijanis. Something of a modern-day Don Quixote, Sadai has longbattled the hatred and corruption he observes in contemporary Azerbaijanisociety. Wandering in and out of consciousness, he revisits his hometown, theancient village of Aylis, where Christian Armenians and Muslim Azeris oncelived peacefully together, and dreams of making a pilgrimage of atonement toArmenia. Stone Dreams is a searing, painful meditation onthe ability of art and artists—of individual human beings—to make change in theworld.
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- Pages:144 pages
- Publisher:Academic Studies Press
- Publication Date:16/08/2022
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- Pages:144 pages
- Publisher:Academic Studies Press
- Publication Date:16/08/2022
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- ISBN:9781644699157
