From Kazakhstan\'s most celebrated author comes his powerful and timely English-language debut about a fisherman\'s struggle to save the Aral Sea, and its way of life, from man-made ecological disaster.
Both father and son confront.
Unfolding on the vast grasslands of the steppes of Kazakhstan before its independence from the USSR, this haunting novel limns the struggles of the world through the eyes of Nasyr, a simple fisherman and village elder, and his resolute son, Kakharman.
From Kazakhstan\'s most celebrated author comes his powerful and timely English-language debut about a fisherman\'s struggle to save the Aral Sea, and its way of life, from man-made ecological disaster