Gaia, queen of ants = I︠A︡lmoghiz Gei︠a︡ ë mŭr-malakh malikasi /

Ismailov, Hamid, 1954-

Gaia, queen of ants = I︠A︡lmoghiz Gei︠a︡ ë mŭr-malakh malikasi / I︠A︡lmoghiz Gei︠a︡ ë mŭr-malakh malikasi Hamid Ismailov ; translated from the Uzbek by Shelley Fairweather-Vega. - First edition. - Syracuse, New York : Syracuse University Press, (c)2020. - 1 online resource - Middle East literature in translation .

Translated from the Uzbek.

Includes bibliographies and index.

Machine generated contents note: Earth and Fire -- Air -- Water -- Fire -- Water and Air -- Fire and Air.

"Set partly in contemporary England and partly in in Soviet-era Central Asia, this novel follows the lives of Domrul, a young Meskhetian Turk with vague and painful memories of ethnic strife and political problems in the Uzbekistan of his childhood; Emer, his Irish girlfriend, the victim of a whole different set of ethnic conflicts; and an 80-year-old Russian-Uzbek client, Gaia, with a mysterious past"--



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Noncitizens--England--London--Fiction.
Exiles--Uzbekistan--Fiction.
Ethnic conflict--Fiction.


Electronic Books.

PL56 / .G353 2020 PG3482