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
The Hungry Steppe: Famine, Violence, and the Making of Soviet Kazakhstan
Half a World Away
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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