Results for 'hamid ismailov'

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  1. We Computers
    1. Hamid Ismailov

    We Computers

    A Ghazal Novel

    “A genre-blending, time-bending, poetic novel. . . . We Computers is [Ismailov’s] most expansive and imaginative creation yet.”—Matthew Janney, Financial Times“A dizzying postmodernist confection translated with tireless ingenuity by Shelley Fairweather-Vega. . . . A thronged, esoteric, besottedly allusive novel, one of the most niche things I have ever reviewed. But niche pleasures, for those who partake in them, are often the keenest.”—Sam Sacks, Wall Street Journal“Hamid Ismailov’s wildly experimental novel . . . creates an alternate history in which a 1980s computer intelligently generates a new kind of mind-expanding, transnational literature.”—Boris Kachka, The Atlantic“We Computers is a novel that fully embraces ambiguity.”—Anu Khosla, The Rumpus“An exuberant homage to all forms of translation and reinvention.”—Thúy Ðinh, NPR, “Books We Love,” 2025One of World Literature Today’s 75 Notable Translations of 2025“Centuries of poetic tradition and the possibilities of artificial intelligence animate this dizzying and gorgeous novel. . . . A rich and sensual tableau that makes an implicit argument for the value of human thought. Readers will go all in for this ambitious, genre-defying work.”—Publishers Weekly (starred review)“Timely, interesting, poetic—and quite good fun, too.”—M. A. Orthofer, Complete Review“Tremendously funny and charming (I read it in one sitting) and one of the most original, sideways explorations of how AI will affect literary authorship and innovation.”—Celine Nguyen, personal canon“A wonderfully chaotic novel.”—Modern NovelFinalist for the National Book Awards Translated Literature Prize, 2025, sponsored by The National Book FoundationShortlisted for the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development Literature Prize, 2026“A feat of translation from Shelley Fairweather-Vega, Hamid Ismailov’s novel is a timely meditation on the limits of language, art, and what’s human in human creativity.”—Judges’ citation, National Book Awards“Many paths cross in Ismailov’s beautiful new work—poetry, history and the infinite imagination. Every path winding into another. Every path worth taking.”—Patti Smith“Ismailov’s best novel yet, We Computers braids together exquisite classical and modern poetry, disorienting autofiction, and Oulipian metaliterary trickery, without ever losing its sense of fun. Fairweather-Vega’s translation handles the multilingual quotations and protean range of pastiche with remarkable deftness.”—Samuel Hodgkin, Yale University

    € 21,95
  2. La fiaba nucleare dell'uomo bambino
    1. Hamid , Ismailov

    La fiaba nucleare dell'uomo bambino

    Nella carrozza di un treno che corre attraverso la sconfinata e monotona steppa kazaka, un viaggiatore si imbatte in un venditore che suona magistralmente il violino. Si chiama Erzhan e, malgrado sia un giovane adulto, conserva un aspetto da bambino. Per ingannare il tempo, il passeggero lo prega di parlare della sua storia. Si dipana così il misterioso racconto dell'uomo bambino, nato negli anni della guerra fredda in un villaggio sperduto, nei pressi di una stazioncina di transito. Erzhan è cresciuto in una piccola comunità, in un microcosmo scandito da riti magici e credenze remote, con la rigida educazione del nonno e da sempre innamorato della piccola vicina di casa, Ajsulu. Un'infanzia serena su cui si addensa una sola ombra minacciosa, quella che si proietta dalla Zona, una impenetrabile area recintata al centro della steppa. Detonazioni intermittenti oscurano il cielo e fanno tremare la terra, provocando violenti uragani e generando timori nel villaggio di Erzhan. Violando le raccomandazioni della famiglia, un giorno il bambino si immerge nel Lago Morto, un bacino color smeraldo che si è formato in seguito a un'esplosione nucleare. E smette di crescere.

    € 29,50
  3. Il figlio del sottosuolo
    1. Hamid , Ismailov

    Il figlio del sottosuolo

    Figlio di un atleta africano e di una donna siberiana, il piccolo Mbobo cresce tra i corridoi e le sale delle più celebri stazioni della metropolitana di Mosca. La sua breve esistenza solitaria copre lo stesso arco temporale della decadenza e del crollo dell'Unione Sovietica, e ha per sfondo l'intricato schema della metropolitana, corpo sotterraneo della città e proiezione inconscia del sistema sovietico. Un fiabesco regno del sottosuolo che incanta con i suoi ambienti sfarzosi, monumentali, ma è a tratti inquietante, come una misteriosa ragnatela in cui Kirill, abbandonato dal padre prima della nascita e poi dalla madre, cerca rifugio dalla crudeltà e dall'indifferenza del mondo in superficie, un mondo sempre più frammentato, che ha perduto i suoi punti di riferimento e si sta progressivamente dissolvendo.

    € 32,50
  4. Manaschi
    1. Hamid Ismailov

    Manaschi

    € 13,95
  5. Wunderkind Erjan
    1. Hamid , Ismailov

    Wunderkind Erjan

    Durch die Weite der Steppe Kasachstans fährt ratternd ein Zug. In ihm begegnen sich ein Reisender und Erjan, das Wunderkind. Der Knabe spielt mitten in dieser vom Zug durchquerten Einöde so virtuos auf seiner Violine, dass nicht nur dem Erzähler Hören und Sagen vergeht. Doch die Musik bleibt nicht das einzige Wunder. Denn der Junge, der aussieht wie zehn oder zwölf, ist in Wahrheit bereits ein Mann von 27 Jahren; als Kind tauchte er allen Warnungen zum Trotz in einen nuklear verseuchten See. Hamid Ismailov versetzt damit das Blechtrommel -Motiv des Immer-Kind-Bleibenden in die Einöde des von 486 Atombombentests verseuchten Kasachstan und gibt ihm eine herbe Intensität von tiefer Schönheit. Zwei Welten prallen darin aufeinander: die Weite und Einsamkeit der Steppe Kasachstans und die moderne Welt außerhalb davon - der Zug, der diese wie stehen gebliebene Welt täglich durchfährt, die Atomtests, die wie eine unsichtbare Macht die Natur und die Menschen verändern, die Musik, die einen anderen Rhythmus in Yerzhans Leben bringt.

    € 22,00
  6. Of Strangers and Bees
    1. Hamid Ismailov

    Of Strangers and Bees

    A Hayy ibn Yaqzan Tale
    € 23,50
  7. Gaia, Queen of Ants
    1. Hamid Ismailov

    Gaia, Queen of Ants

    From Uzbek author-in-exile Hamid Ismailov comes a dark new parable of power, corruption, fraud, and deception. Ismailov narrates an intimate clash of civilizations as he follows the lives of three expatriates living in England.

    € 20,95
  8. The Dog
    1. Jack Livings

    The Dog

    A wealthy factory owner - once a rural peasant - refuses to help the victims of an earthquake until his daughter starts a relief effort of her own; a powerful Uyghur gangster clashes with his homosexual grandson; and a man struggles to undertake a physically impossible task - constructing a giant crystal sarcophagus for the dead leader.

    € 21,95
  9. A Poet and Bin-Laden
    1. Hamid Ismailov

    A Poet and Bin-Laden

    The "reality novel" A Poet and Bin-Laden set in Central Asia at the turn of the 21st century against a swirling backdrop of Islamic fundamentalism in the Ferghana Valley and beyond, gives a first-hand account on the militants and Taliban's internal life. The novel begins on the eve of 9/11, with the narrator's haunting description of the airplane attack on the Twin Towers as seen on TV while he is on holiday in Central Asia; and tells the story of an Uzbek poet Belgi, who was disappointed in the authoritarian regime in Uzbekistan and became a terrorist in the eyes of the world. His journey begins with a search for a Sufi spiritual master and ends in guerrilla warfare, and it is this tension between a transcendental and a violent response to oppression, between the book and the bomb, between Archipelago GULAG and modern Central Asia and Afghanistan, that gives the novel its specific poignancy. In this book Hamid Ismailov masterfully intertwines fiction with documentary and provides wonderfully vivid accounts of historical events such as the siege of Kunduz, the breakout from Shebergan prison and the insurgency in the Ferghana Valley as witnessed by the Byronian figure of Belgi, who enters the inner sanctum of al-Qaeda, and ultimately meets Sheikh bin Laden himself.

    € 44,50
  10. The Underground
    1. Hamid Ismailov

    The Underground

    Synopsis coming soon.......

    € 17,95
  11. The Railway
    1. Hamid Ismailov

    The Railway

    Set mainly in Uzbekistan between 1900 and 1980, The Railway introduces to us the inhabitants of the small town of Gilas on the ancient Silk Route. At the heart of both the town and the novel stands the railway station - a source of income and influence, and a connection to the greater world beyond the town.

    € 13,95
  12. A Poet and Bin-Laden
    1. Hamid Ismailov

    A Poet and Bin-Laden

    A Poet and Bin-Laden is a novel set in Central Asia at the turn of the 21st century against a swirling backdrop of Islamic fundamentalism in the Ferghana Valley and beyond.

    € 34,50