Language and literature

Night and Day

Cholpon on a 1997 stamp — Wikimedia Commons · Public domain

Author: Abdulhamid Choʻlpon
Published: 1936
Language: özbəkcə

Cholpon's novel about the fate of a young girl, Zebi, in early 20th-century Turkestan. Its prose, as beautiful as poetry, makes it a peak of the Uzbek novel; banned for decades, it returned to readers after independence.

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