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The Dead Lake

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First published: 2014
Pages: 81

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The Dead Lake is a touching novel written by Hamid Ismailov. The tale presents us with the eerie aftermath of the Cold War. The story centers around Yerzhan, a young boy living in a secluded part of Kazakhstan, which is used by the Soviets for atomic weapons testing.

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Hamid Ismailov

Hamid Ismailov is an Uzbek novelist and journalist whose fiction often brings Central Asian histories into formally inventive narratives. The Dead Lake follows a railway traveler across Kazakhstan who meets Yerzhan, a gifted musician whose body stopped developing after contact with a forbidden lake near the Semipalatinsk testing zone.

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