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"--