Onto Book Club pick # 3 - The Tale of Aypi (2016) by Ak Welsapar, an author from Turkmenistan. Enjoying the aphorisms and metaphors, familiar names, and childhood memories of summer vacations at the Caspian Sea. We e-meet on 27th of June, 12:00-13:30 BST to discuss it! 🤗🤓

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Thank you all who joined the Book Club discussion today of The Tale of Aypi by Ak Welsapar. A cozy discussion of whether we should read “imperfect” novels or books we don’t particularly like, and who sets the standard of literary “quality”, canon, and aesthetic

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Delayed discussion questions for Aitmatov’s novel. The discussion was great and we went beyond these questions

Questions for The Tale of Aypi. We’ve had a smaller group that allowed to dig deeper into them.

Posting questions in advance this time. Feel free to have them along the read or answer them now! Spoiler alert - translator’s note is at the end of the book for a reason 😊

Book Club is approaching and this time it’s a very long novel. Binge reading 📖 Please feel free to join even if you didn’t get to finish it. Even if you’ve only managed 20 pages, it does introduce to his style of writing. I do recommend reading the translator’s note at the end

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Thank you to all who joined today’s Book Club session! It was a challenging read but so many loved it! It’s great to see “the regulars” and have this community! I also learnt that people like having questions in advance, before the discussion sessions! On to book number 5 😊

We are onto reading book #5, “Ali and Nino. A Love Story” by Kurban Said. I’ve read it 8 years ago and curious what it’s like to reread it now. I sent the text to everyone who registered, will be sending questions for discussion soon. Happy read and will see you in a month!

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Thank you all who attended the Book Club discussion of Ali and Nino by Kurban Said. I genuinely enjoyed the discussion and hearing what you got from the read! We’re onto the last reading, a poetry book from Tajikistan. No need to read in advance! Very much looking forward!

Following on from our recent articles on Russian colonialism, we continue our examination of a subject we know little about at The Funambulist. This text by Svitlana Matviyenko, Sitora Rooz and E. Vincent proposes a method for reading Russian colonial and post-colonial domination