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• Title:[Вундеркинд ержан. English]
  The dead lake / Hamid Ismailov ; translated from the Russian by Andrew Bromfield.
  
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• Author/Creator:Ismailov, Hamid, 1954- author.
  
• Other Contributors/Collections:Bromfield, Andrew, translator.
  
• Published/Created:London : Peirene Press, 2014.
  

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  • Location:KOERNER LIBRARY stacks (Floor 1)Where is this?
    
  • Call Number: PG3482.S575 V8613 2014
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Teenage boys--Kazakhstan--Fiction.
  Radioactive pollution--Kazakhstan--Fiction.
  Russian fiction--Translations into English.
  Kazakhstan--History--20th century--Fiction.
  
• Genre/Form:Novels.
  
• Description:122 pages ; 20 cm
  
• Series:Coming of age series.
  Ismailov, Hamid, 1954- Coming of age.
  
• Summary:A haunting Russian tale about the environmental legacy of the Cold War. Yerzhan grows up in a remote part of Kazakhstan where the Soviets tests atomic weapons. As a young boy he falls in love with the neighbour's daughter and one evening, to impress her, he dives into a forbidden lake. The radio-active water changes Yerzhan. He will never grow into a man. While the girl he loves becomes a beautiful woman. 'Like a Grimm's Fairy tale, this story transforms an innermost fear into an outward reality. We witness a prepubescent boy's secret terror of not growing up into a man. We also wander in a beautiful, fierce landscape unlike any other we find in Western Literature. And by the end of Yerzhan's tale we are awe-struck by our human resilience in the face of catastrophic, man-made, follies.
  
• Notes:Originally published in 2011 as Вундеркинд ержан.
  Translated from the Russian.
  
• ISBN:9781908670144 (paperback)
  1908670142 (paperback)