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Jamilia (Paperback)

by Chingiz Aitmatov (Author)
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  • Paperback: 196 pages
  • Publisher: Telegram Books (24 Jul 2007)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 1846590329
  • ISBN-13: 978-1846590320
  • Product Dimensions: 19.8 x 12.2 x 0.8 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 153,237 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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'The most beautiful love story in the world.' Louis Aragon'A beautiful love story...subtle and beautifully developed.' The Bookseller


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Jamilia's husband is off fighting at the front. She spends her days hauling sacks of grain from the threshing floor to the train station in their small village in the Caucasus, accompanied by Seit, her young brother-in-law, and Daniyar, a sullen newcomer to the village who has been wounded on the battlefield. Seit observes the beautiful, spirited Jamilia spurn men's advances, and wince at the dispassionate letters she receives from her husband. Meanwhile, undeterred by Jamilia's teasing, Daniyar sings as they return each evening from the fields. Soon Jamilia is in love, and she and Daniyar elope just as her husband returns...
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4.0 out of 5 stars A short story with a lot to say, 20 Jun 2008
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Despite this book's very slim size, Aitmatov takes on the broadest of themes in this novel's portrait of love in the Kazakh south. Set during the war, Jamilia is a newly married, beautiful, young woman, full of confidence and good humour, whose husband is away at the front. Left with her husband's family, she works alongside her teenage brother in law and an enigmatic wounded war veteran delivering grain sacks.

Initially, we see the love of the family, united around her and her delight in this new life. As time goes on the infrequent letters from her absent husband, sketch out a marital love that is formulaic and constricted by traditional expectations. Then as the war veteran, Daniyar, begins to sing, the novel lights up with the love of nature, the love of one's land and one's homeland and Daniyar is transfigured before them.

This is a really short and easy read, but it holds so much and says so much about love in all its forms; from brotherly to illicit, from love of duty-bound tradition to the love of the freedom in nature. It's an easy read but a thoughtful read - not your conventional "love story", but a vivid, evocative tale that will stay with you past the final page.
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