Hamid Ismailov
Autore di The Railway
Sull'Autore
Opere di Hamid Ismailov
Opere correlate
And We Came Outside and Saw the Stars Again: Writers from Around the World on the COVID-19 Pandemic (2020) — Collaboratore — 12 copie
Etichette
Informazioni generali
- Data di nascita
- 1954-05-05
- Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- Kyrgyzstan (birth)
UK (naturalized)
Uzbekistan - Nazione (per mappa)
- Uzbekistan
- Luogo di nascita
- Tokmok, Kirgyz SSR, Soviet Union
- Luogo di residenza
- London, England, UK
- Istruzione
- Tashkent State University (biology ∙ law ∙ management)
Bagrationov Military Institute - Attività lavorative
- journalist
- Relazioni
- Sultanova, Razia (wife)
- Organizzazioni
- BBC World Service
- Premi e riconoscimenti
- ROSSICA (UK)
AATSEEL (US) (for the best translation of 'The Railway') - Agente
- Liepman AG
Utenti
Recensioni
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Statistiche
- Opere
- 10
- Opere correlate
- 3
- Utenti
- 382
- Popolarità
- #63,245
- Voto
- 3.5
- Recensioni
- 25
- ISBN
- 25
- Lingue
- 3
Ismailov says in an interview with the translator included as an afterword here that he wanted to contrast the regimented, hierarchical, Soviet way of looking at the world — obviously symbolised here by the railway — with the unprejudiced, fluid, Sufi-like gaze of the innocent boy. Ismailov takes no prisoners either in his social and political satire or in his brutally matter-of-fact descriptions of sex and violence, so this definitely isn’t for everyone, but it is a quite remarkable book, and often very funny indeed, even in places where you had rather it wasn’t… Certainly another one that invites a re-read to get the most out of it.… (altro)