Of Strangers and Bees

Title: Of Strangers and Bees
Author: Hamid Ismailov
Fiction: 1700421
ISBN: 9781911284369
Publisher: Tilted Axis Press
Published: 2019
Binding: Paperback
Language: English
Number of Pages: 446
Section: Literary Criticism | Russian & Soviet
Condition Note: New from the publisher
Publisher Description:

The intricate new novel from the winner of the EBRD Literature Prize

'Life in exile! May it be cursed. Once you have become a stranger, a stranger you shall remain; you may endeavour to make friends, but the task is a difficult one, full end to end with uncertainty.'

In the latest thrilling multi-stranded epic from the award-winning author of The Devils' Dance, an Uzbek writer in exile traces the fate of the medieval polymath Avicenna, who shaped Islamic thought and science for centuries.Waking from a portentous dream, Uzbek writer Sheikhov is convinced that the medieval polymath Avicenna lives on, condemned to roam the world. The novel follows Avicenna in various incarnations across the ages from Ottoman Turkey to medieval Germany and Renaissance Italy. Sheikhov plies the same route, though his troubles are distinctly modern as he endures the petty humiliations of exile.

Following the award-winning The Devils' Dance, Hamid Ismailov has crafted another masterpiece, combining traditional oral storytelling with contemporary global fiction to create a modern Sufi parable about the search for truth and wisdom.