Kazakhstan

Books set in or about Kazakhstan

Apples Are from Kazakhstan: The Land that Disappeared
The Dead Lake
The Day Lasts More than a Hundred Years
Sovietistan: Travels in Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, and Uzbekistan
The Dead Wander in the Desert
Dark Shadows: Inside the Secret World of Kazakhstan
The Silent Steppe: The Memoir of a Kazakh Nomad Under Stalin
Amanat: Women’s Writing from Kazakhstan
Half a World Away
To Hell with Poets
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 Hungry Steppe: Famine, Violence, and the Making of Soviet Kazakhstan
Woman In Exile: My Life In Kazakhstan
Central Asia: A New History from the Imperial Conquests to the Present
Vanished Khans and Empty Steppes: A History of Kazakhstan from Pre-History to Post-Independence

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Victor Robert Lee
She was like him, trying to embrace the moon while making her way in the world through instinct and drive that came only from within, because she had only herself.
Victor Robert Lee, Performance Anomalies

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?
Ahmed Baitursinuli

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