Stone Dreams

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A Novel-Requiem

By Akram Aylisli

Series: Central Asian Literatures in Translation

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Stone Dreams follows Azerbaijani actor Sadai Sadygly during the final years of the Soviet Union as he confronts ethnic violence, political corruption, and social hatred. After protecting an elderly Armenian from attack, Sadai lands in a Baku hospital, where dreams and memories transport him back to his native village of Aylis—a place once marked by peaceful coexistence between Christian Armenians and Muslim Azeris. The novel explores Sadai's struggle to live truthfully and his yearning for reconciliation through a pilgrimage to Armenia, embodying a modern-day Don Quixote's quest against injustice.
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Stone Dreams will appeal to readers interested in historical and political fiction, those seeking profound reflections on ethnic conflict and human compassion, and admirers of literary explorations of artists' roles in society.

Amid ethnic violence, political corruption, and petty professionalintrigue, an artist tries to live free of lies.

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Amid ethnic violence, political corruption, and petty professional intrigue, an artist tries to live free of lies.

Set during the last years of the Soviet Union, Stone Dreams tells the story of Azerbaijani actor Sadai Sadygly, who lands in a Baku hospital while trying to protect an elderly Armenian man from a gang of young Azerbaijanis. Something of a modern-day Don Quixote, Sadai has long battled the hatred and corruption he observes in contemporary Azerbaijani society.

Wandering in and out of consciousness, he revisits his hometown, the ancient village of Aylis, where Christian Armenians and Muslim Azeris once lived peacefully together, and dreams of making a pilgrimage of atonement to Armenia. Stone Dreams is a searing, painful meditation on the ability of art and artists—of individual human beings—to make change in the world.

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ISBN: 9781644699133

Publisher: Academic Studies Press

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 01 September 2022

Country: United States

Imprint: Academic Studies Press

Illustration: Illustrations

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Translated by Katherine E. Young

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 8.0mm

Width: 139.0mm

Height: 209.0mm

Weight: 13g

Pages: 144

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Akram Aylisli Education & Reference Fiction General Fiction History & Archaeology History & Military Literary Fiction Military History Politics & Current Affairs Series: Central Asian Literatures in Translation

About the Author

Akram Aylisli is an Azerbaijani writer, playwright,novelist, and editor. His works have been translated from his native Azeri intomore than 20 languages. The 2012 publication of his novella Stone Dreams led tobook burnings and the continuous harassment of the author himself. Since 2016he has lived under a politically motivated criminal investigation andcorresponding restrictions on his activities in Baku, Azerbaijan.

Katherine E. Young is theauthor of the poetry collections Woman Drinking Absinthe and Dayof the Border Guardsand the editor of Written in ArlingtonSheis the translator of work by Anna Starobinets (memoir), Akram Aylisli (fiction),and numerous Russophone poets. Young was named a 2017 National Endowment forthe Art translation fellow. From 2016-2018, she served as the inaugural PoetLaureate for Arlington, Virginia.

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