
- 112 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
To Hell With Poets
About this book
Winner of an English PEN Translates Award
"Baqytgul Sarmekova offers wry, darkly humorous portraits of ordinary Kazakh people held in the snare of patriarchy, cultural tradition, and postsocialist upheaval… Mirgul Kali deftly recreates the atmosphere of these everyday tensions as they quietly seethe just below the surface." ––PEN/Heim judges' citation
Vivid, hilarious and unsettling, the tragicomic characters of To Hell With Poets reflect the inner discord of the modern Kazakh. The stories move between the city and the aul, postsocialist and capitalist worlds, tradition and modernity. Incisive and unapologetic, Sarmekova refuses to hold back, offering a sharp and honest rendering of daily life in Kazakhstan.
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Table of contents
- TO
- Titlepage
- The Black Colt
- The Brown House and the White Zhiguli
- Dognity
- Monica
- Möldir
- The Night the Rose Wept
- The Taming of Aqtory
- Armangul
- To Hell with Poets
- To Hell with Poets, Part Two
- To Hell with Singers
- Boarbai
- The Apricot Tree Blooms
- Ice Cream
- The Brown Ram Lamb
- Superstitions
- The Warmth
- The Cobbler
- One-day Marriage
- In Search of a Character
- Copyright
- About Tilted Axis Press