Эта книга - третья часть трилогии; первые две книги - "Дочь огня" и "Двенадцать ворот Бухары" - выходили в "Советском писателе" и приобрели широкую известность. Действие романа происходит в 1921 году в молодой Бухарской республике, раздираемой жестокой классовой борьбой. Против революции, против Советской власти выступают сбежавший в Афганистан эмир, турецкий полководец Энвер-паша; активизируются и внутренние враги: басмачи, националисты. В острых коллизиях автор раскрывает характеры героев - Асо, Фирузы и других, знакомых читателю по первым двум книгам.
Джалол Икрами جلال إكرامي Tajik Soviet writer, classic of modern Tajik literature; People's writer of Tajikistan.
Ikrami Jalol was born on September 7 (20), 1909 in the city of Bukhara (now Uzbekistan) in the family of a judge. In 1928 he graduated from a teacher's college.
In 1930, Ikrami moved to Dushanbe. He worked as a researcher in the Committee for the Study of Tajikistan, and later was reorganized into the Scientific Research Institute of Language and Literature; an employee and executive secretary of literary magazines, in charge of the literary part of the Tajik State Order of the Red Banner of the Academic Drama Theater named after Lahuti; was the editor of the Tajik state publishing house.
From 1935, Jalal Ikrami - member of the Union of Writers of Tajikistan; since 1945 - member of the CPSU.
In the post-war period, Ikrami was a member of the Presidium of the Board of the Union of Writers of Tajikistan, a member of the editorial board of the Pamir magazine; repeatedly elected as a deputy of the Dushanbe city Council of Workers' Deputies.
Ikrami Jalol died in 1993 and was buried in a cemetery in Luchobi.
In September 2009, Tajikistan celebrated the 100th anniversary of the birth of Jalol Ikrami.