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Lädt ... Have the Mountains Fallen?: Two Journeys of Loss and Redemption in the Cold Warvon Jeffrey B. Lilley
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Melde dich bei LibraryThing an um herauszufinden, ob du dieses Buch mögen würdest. Keine aktuelle Diskussion zu diesem Buch. A couple of years ago I read Chingiz Aitmatov’s “A Day lasts a hundred years” and was keen to know more about the author - thus I came across Jeffrey B Lilley’s “Have the Mountains Fallen?: Two journeys of loss and redemption in the Cold War”. This is an amazing book that not only dispassionately covers the history of Central Asia from the Soviet era to contemporary times, it does so through a moving relating of the personal stories of Chingiz Aitmatov and Azamat Altai. These two were in one sense mirror images of each other in their adult life stories through the Soviet era but in reality were both children of a lastingly nourishing Kyrgyz matrix of ancestry, culture and legend. I had thoroughly enjoyed “A Day lasts a hundred years”, after reading Lilley’s book I understood it so very much more. keine Rezensionen | Rezension hinzufügen
After surviving the blitzkrieg of World War II and escaping from two Nazi prison camps, Soviet soldier Azamat Altay was banished as a traitor from his native home land. Chinghiz Aitmatov became a hero of Kyrgyzstan, writing novels about the lives of everyday Soviet citizens but mourning a mystery that might never be solved. While both came from small villages in the beautiful mountainous countryside, they found themselves caught on opposite sides of the Cold War struggle between world superpowers. Altay became the voice of democracy on Radio Liberty, while Aitmatov rose through the ranks of Soviet politics. Yet just as they seemed to be pulled apart in the political turmoil, they found their lives intersecting in moving and surprising ways. Have the Mountains Fallen? traces the lives of these two men as they confronted the full threat and legacy of the Soviet empire. Through personal and intersecting narratives of loss, love, and longing for a homeland forever changed, a clearer picture emerges of the experience of the Cold War from the other side. Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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Google Books — Lädt ... GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)891.7344Literature Literature of other languages Literature of east Indo-European and Celtic languages Russian and East Slavic languages Russian fiction USSR 1917–1991 Late 20th century 1917–1991Klassifikation der Library of Congress [LCC] (USA)BewertungDurchschnitt: Keine Bewertungen.Bist das du?Werde ein LibraryThing-Autor. |