Kazakhstan

Books set in or about Kazakhstan

Apples Are from Kazakhstan: The Land that Disappeared
The Dead Wander in the Desert
The Dead Lake
The Day Lasts More than a Hundred Years
Sovietistan: Travels in Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, and Uzbekistan
The Silent Steppe: The Memoir of a Kazakh Nomad Under Stalin
Dark Shadows: Inside the Secret World of Kazakhstan
To Hell with Poets
Amanat: Women’s Writing from Kazakhstan
Half a World Away
The Hungry Steppe: Famine, Violence, and the Making of Soviet Kazakhstan
Grensen: En reise rundt Russland gjennom Nord-Korea, Kina, Mongolia, Kasakhstan, Aserbajdsjan, Georgia, Ukraina, Hviterussland, Litauen, Polen, Latvia, Estland, Finland og Norge samt Nordøstpassasjen
The Kazakhs
Woman In Exile: My Life In Kazakhstan
Atomic Steppe: How Kazakhstan Gave Up the Bomb

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Ken MacLeod
David Reid and Myra Godwin are talking after the funeral of her ex-husband in Alma-Ta. Reid was an old lover of Myra: "There was still a genuine affection between them, attenuated though it was by the years, exasperated though it was by their antagonism. Reid had neer been a man to let enmity get in the way of friendship. ...more
Ken MacLeod, The Sky Road

From the Volga to the Irtysh, from the Urals to Afghanistan, a solid mass of us lived, Kazakhs. Now when different people penetrate into our midst, why are we not able to live as such, a Kazakh nation?
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