Amanat

A man is arrested for a single typo, a woman gets on buses at random, and two friends reunite in a changed world...

The twenty-four stories in Amanat, translated into English from Kazakh or Russian, comprise a groundbreaking survey of women's writing in Kazakhstan over its thirty years of independence. Exploring nostalgia, family, politics, and the changing relationship between city and countryside in a time altered by modernity, Amanat acutely traces the uncertainties, struggles, joys, and losses of a part of the post-Soviet world often unseen and overlooked. Utterly absorbing, Amanat is an invitation to listen - the women of Kazakhstan have stories to tell.