Chingiz Aitmatov
Born
in Sheker, Kyrgyzstan
December 12, 1928
Died
June 10, 2008
Genre
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The Day Lasts More Than a Hundred Years
86 editions
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1980
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Jamilia
116 editions
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published
1958
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Beyaz Gemi
by
82 editions
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1970
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Toprak Ana
by
49 editions
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1963
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ගුරු ගීතය
by
36 editions
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published
1962
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Плаха
by
81 editions
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published
1986
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Elveda Gülsarı
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Cengiz Han'a Küsen Bulut
by
14 editions
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published
1992
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Selvi Boylum Al Yazmalım
26 editions
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published
1961
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Пегий пес, бегущий краем моря
39 editions
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1977
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“The only thing I'll never have is what I have lost for ever and ever... As long as I live, until I draw my last breath, I shall remember Asel and all those beautiful things that were ours. The day I was to leave I went to the lake and stood on the rise above it. I was saying good-bye to the Tien Shan mountains, to Issyk-Kul. Good-bye, Issyk-Kul, my unfinished song! How I wish I could take you with me, your blue waters and your yellow shores, but I can't, just as I can't take the woman I love with me. Goodbye, Asel. Good-bye, my pretty poplar in a red kerchief! Good-bye, my love, I want you to be happy...”
― Piebald Dog Running Along the Shore and Other Stories
― Piebald Dog Running Along the Shore and Other Stories
“And all of a sudden I began to understand his strangeness that made people shrug and mock; his dreaminess, his love of solitude, his silent manner. Now I understood why he sat on the look-out hill of an evening and why he spent a night by himself on the riverbank, why he constantly hearkened to sounds others could not hear and why his eyes would suddenly gleam and his drawn eyebrows twitch. He was a man deeply in love. I felt it was not simply a love for another person, it was somehow an uncommon, expansive love for life and earth. He had kept this love within himself, in his music, in his very being. A person with no feeling, no matter how good his voice, could never have sung like that.”
― Jamilia
― Jamilia
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