Set in Kazakhstan

Fiction books set in Kazakhstan

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created by WillowMae

last updated April, 2026

8 books

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Amanat: Women’s Writing from Kazakhstan

Zaure Batayeva

Batu and the Search for the Golden Cup

Zira Nauryzbai

To Hell with Poets

Baqytgul Sarmekova

THE TRAGEDY OF A BASTARD

Saule Doszhan

Abai (abridged)

Mukhtar Auezov

The Dead Wander in the Desert

Rollan Seisenbayev

A Life at Noon

Talasbek Asemkulov

The Day Lasts More than a Hundred Years

Chingiz Aitmatov

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dineke

Dude I was just thinking last night I wonder if making a list about Kazakh lit would be too niche for PG 😭 love u

WillowMaeOP

Thank you! I’m trying to make one for every country!

dineke

Am I allowed to suggest additions? 👀

The Day Lasts More Than a Hundred Years — Chingiz Aitmatov
Amanat: Women’s Writing from Kazakhstan

There’s also Ilyas Yesenberlin’s The Nomads trilogy but I can’t find any translations to English so I guess doesn’t apply here?

WillowMaeOP

Yes of course!!! The first one is already on the list, I have added the second one. I’ll see if I can find a translation for the 3rd but if not, will add when English translation comes out! Thank you so much!!!

dineke

So the third is a Kazakh classics , a trilogy, but it’s only been published semi-independently and somewhat chaotically but PG does have a version where all books are in one called The Nomads.

Who’s the author?

Ilyas Esenberlin

Thank you!

P.S. if you’d wanna expand your list at some point, I dug out quite a few Kazakh authors for my central Asian list, but I’m too tired to go through them again and see which ones are actually set in KZ 🫠

WillowMaeOP

I will definitely check it out!! Thank you so much

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