Literary places in Talas

Jamilia

Chingiz Aitmatov

Aitmatov's Talas valley in wartime: a Kyrgyz collective-farm village set between mountain ranges, the men gone to the front, the harvest to be carted down the steppe road and across the river to the railway. The map runs west from the regional town of Talas through the valley Aitmatov grew up in, out toward the line at Dzhambul over the Kazakh border.

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