An unprecedented collection of women’s voices from the heart of Central Asia. From the foreword by Gabriel Mcguire: “I cannot think of anything quite like … Amanat.” A man is arrested for a single typo, a woman gets on buses at random, and two friends reunite in a changed world…. Diverse in form, scope and style, Amanat brings together the voices of thirteen female Kazakhstani writers, to offer a glimpse into the many lives, stories, and histories of one of the largest countries to emerge from the breakup of the Soviet Union. The twenty-four stories in Amanat, translated into English from Kazakh and Russian,comprise a groundbreaking survey of women’s writing in the Central Asian country over its thirty years of independence, paying homage to the rich but largely unrecorded oral storytelling tradition of the region. Contemplating nostalgia, politics, and intergenerational history in a time altered by modernity, Amanat acutely traces the uncertainties, struggles, joys, and losses of a corner of the post-Soviet world often unseen and overlooked. Utterly absorbing, Amanat is an invitation to listen—the women of Kazakhstan have stories to tell.

At seventeen, Lenora Hope Hung her sister with a rope Now reduced to a schoolyard chant, the Hope family murders shocked the Maine coast one bloody night in 1929. While most people assume seventeen-year-old Lenora was responsible, the police were never able to prove it. Other than her denial after the killings, she has never spoken publicly about that night, nor has she set foot outside Hope’s End, the cliffside mansion where the massacre occurred. Stabbed her father with a knife Took her mother’s happy life It’s now 1983, and home-health aide Kit McDeere arrives at a decaying Hope’s End to care for Lenora after her previous nurse fled in the middle of the night. In her seventies and confined to a wheelchair, Lenora was rendered mute by a series of strokes and can only communicate with Kit by tapping out sentences on an old typewriter. One night, Lenora uses it to make a tantalizing offer—I want to tell you everything. “It wasn’t me,” Lenora said But she’s the only one not dead As Kit helps Lenora write about the events leading to the Hope family massacre, it becomes clear there’s more to the tale than people know. But when new details about her predecessor’s departure come to light, Kit starts to suspect Lenora might not be telling the complete truth—and that the seemingly harmless woman in her care could be far more dangerous than she first thought.

Et superheltunivers møter 30-tallsskrekk som møter kjøkkenbenkrealisme. Karl Eliassen er udødelig, men det holder han skjult for verden. I stedet flytter han og bytter jobb når det er gått en stund slik at ingen han jobber med skal oppdage at han ikke eldes. Samtidig begynner han å dukke opp på flere videoer og bilder som gjennomgås av politietterforsker Hejer i forbindelse med en mystisk hendelse utenfor Stortinget. Snart reiser spørsmålet seg hvordan en og samme mann kan være på opptak fra så forskjellige tidsperioder?

Et superheltunivers møter 30-tallsskrekk som møter kjøkkenbenkrealisme. Karl Eliassen er udødelig, men det holder han skjult for verden. I stedet flytter han og bytter jobb når det er gått en stund slik at ingen han jobber med skal oppdage at han ikke eldes. Samtidig begynner han å dukke opp på flere videoer og bilder som gjennomgås av politietterforsker Hejer i forbindelse med en mystisk hendelse utenfor Stortinget. Snart reiser spørsmålet seg hvordan en og samme mann kan være på opptak fra så forskjellige tidsperioder?