Hamid Ismaïlov
Manaschi
“Manaschi is like no other recent book I know. It is completely alive, it speaks to our times, it chronicles in Homeric language our Eurasian sorrows and hopes as they unfold on the ground, it is stranger than fiction, and it will stand the test of time.”
Kapka Kassabova, jury member
Edition
Tilted Axis Press, Sheffield/London, 2021
Translation
Translated from Uzbek by Donald Rayfield
Proposed by Kapka Kassabova