This book contains 1 novel and 2 novellas by the renowned Kazakh author Bayangali Alimzhanov. A Hundred Years on the Steppe is a fascinating first-person narrative which tells the story of the last century in Kazakhstan as seen through the eyes of one man, Asanbai Bektemirov. Born in 1900, Asanbai sees the Russian Civil War spill onto the steppe where he grew up. He then lives through Stalin’s Great Terror, is wounded on the front of the Second World War, escapes from a Siberian Gulag, and makes it back home to the steppe, where he grows old with a large family in Soviet Kazakhstan, alongside two close friends, a German and a Russian. As Asanbai turns 100, the novel ends with Kazakhstan struggling with its hard-fought independence. A chronicle of history, culture and traditions, it is simultaneously heart-warming and gut-wrenching in its honesty. The first novella, titled “Let Me Live!” is a highly imaginative morality tale about a man who injects a 'conscience drug' into politicians and bullies. Ranging from sinister to humorous to uplifting, this story turns into an incisive critique of modern civilisation. The second novella, “Ablai Khan and His Batyrs”, is a historical legend of Khan Ablai the warrior.