Vijeta

by Sharaf Rashidov

Akcja tej powieści toczy się na początku lat 50-tych XX wieku w małej uzbeckiej wsi i dotyczy sprawy dla tego regionu od wieków najważniejszej - braku wody.Z inicjatywy młodych zapaleńców, popieranych przez niemal całą społeczność wiejską, rozpoczyna się walka o wodę - poszukiwanie i odkopywanie zasypanych przed laty przez basmaczy źródeł, budowa zbiornika i tamy. Młodzi chcą przekształcić półpustynne obszary republiki w krainę uprawy bawełny, krainę sadów i ogrodów.

322 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1951

About the author

Soviet party and statesman, writer. First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Uzbek SSR (1959-1983).
He was born in the city of Jizzakh the day before the October Revolution in a peasant family. Uzbek.
He graduated from the philological faculty of the Uzbek State University in Tashkent (1941), the All-Union Party School (VPSh) under the Central Committee of the All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks (1948, in absentia). Since 1935, after graduating from the Jizzakh Pedagogical College, he worked as a secondary school teacher. In 1937-1941, executive secretary, deputy executive editor, editor of the Samarkand regional newspaper “Lenin yli” (“Leninsky Way”).

Reviews

[Tanvi Prakash · Rating 5 out of 5]

Excellent feel-good soviet propaganda story. The girl protagonist is awesome. This book got me initiated to Uzbek culture, which is surprisingly familiar (to the Indian reader) because of the old silk route ties.

[.zhar · Rating 3 out of 5]

In my opinion, the writer, Sharaf Rashidov tried to tell his vision of the perfect socialist community. Where people come hand to hand to achieve big things for the greater good (very much like the concept of 'gotong royong' in Indonesia).

One thing that I really like the most is the fact that the main protagonist, Aikiz (and regardless of her gender) manages to convince, mobilize, and get all the respect she deserves. It goes to show that, there are no inferior genders, everyone's ideas should be treated with equal respect no matter who they are.

[منوچهر محور · Rating 1 out of 5]

این کتاب بسیار قدیمی است و بعید می‌دانم دیگر کسی به آن دسترسی داشته باشد. خودم آن را در دوران کودکی خواندم. اما به هر حال این چند کلمه را بگویم که داستان در واقع تبلیغات شوروی است و ارزش ادبی ندارد.
دختری روستایی که در جنگ جهانی دوم (جنگ کبیر میهنی) مادر و دو برادرش را از دست داده است، پس از جنگ پیشنهاد می‌دهد که چشمه‌های آب روستا را لایروبی کنند و دوباره کشت پنبه را آغاز کنند و در آخرهم ازدواج می‌کند!