Blogs in October 2024

THE BAKU INHERITANCE 28th October 2024

Hunted by oil spies, a bankrupt oil baron inherits a priceless jewel and a runaway girl. 1890 Baku, Azerbaijan. Anton Sabroski returns from the Orient carrying classified documents for a secret oil project. He finds his father dying and...

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Days in the Caucasus 10th December 2020

We all know families that are poor but ‘respectable’. Mine, in contrast, was extremely rich but not ‘respectable’ at all… This is the unforgettable memoir of a childhood spent in Azerbaijan in the turbulent early twentieth century, caught between...

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The Garden Bunches 26th January 2020

Gunel is a young, truly loving, and devoted Azerbaijani woman. As a result of a drastic transformation of life circumstances, Gunel and her family, her husband, and their two little children need to immigrate to the United States. They...

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The Dream of Death 26th January 2020

Vagif Sultanly is one of the foremost representatives of modern Azerbaijani prose and his latest book expresses moral and ethical features specific to modern society such as estrangement, alienation, oblivion, negligence and feelings of uselessness. The main part of...

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The Legend Of The Snake 26th January 2020

The novel and short stories included in this book describe the problems inherent to modern Azerbaijani society such as alienation, loneliness, hopelessness, soullessness etc. against a background of sophisticated characters and events. The great, intellectual, path-defining writer of Azerbaijanian...

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