In his latest tragicomedy Hamid Ismailov interrogates the intersection between tradition and modernity. A former radiopresenter wrongly interprets one of his dreams and thinks that he has been initiated into the world of spirits as a manaschi, one of the Kyrgyz bards and healers reciting Manas the longest human epic, consisting nearly of a million verses who are revered as people who are connected with supernatural forces. Travelling to a mountainous village populated by Tajiks and Kyrgyzs, he instead witnesses the full scale of the epics wrath on his life. Following on from the awardwinning The Devils Dance and Of Strangers and Bees, this is the third and final book in Ismailovs Central Asia trilogy.

Binding: Paperback;257 pages; Publisher: Tilted Axis Press; Classification: FYT; Weight: 356 g; Dimensions: 165 x 329 x 27

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