{"id":371514,"date":"2025-08-25T05:06:14","date_gmt":"2025-08-25T05:06:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/371514\/"},"modified":"2025-08-25T05:06:14","modified_gmt":"2025-08-25T05:06:14","slug":"sultan-raevs-novel-zhanzhaza-published-in-usa-in-english","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/371514\/","title":{"rendered":"Sultan Raev\u2019s novel \u201cZhanzhaza\u201d published in USA in English &#8211;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The novel \u00abZhanzhaza\u00bb by\u00a0Kyrgyz writer Sultan Raev has been released in\u00a0New York in\u00a0English under the title \u00abCastigation\u00bb. The book was published by\u00a0the American publishing house Syracuse, with the translation done by\u00a0renowned translator Shelley Fairweather-Vega.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/24.kg\/files\/media\/394\/394958.jpeg\" class=\"fancybox\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/394958_w_h500_1756096550_r.jpeg\" alt=\"\"\/> <\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Sultan Raev\u2019s work was included in\u00a0the list of\u00a0the 20\u00a0best books to\u00a0be\u00a0published by\u00a0the publishing house in\u00a02025, receiving high praise from American literary scholars.<\/p>\n<p>Kagan Arik, professor at\u00a0the University of\u00a0Chicago, noted that the novel \u00abhas become a\u00a0discovery not only for Central Asian literature, but for world literature as\u00a0a\u00a0whole.\u00bb According to\u00a0him, through the book, readers are introduced to\u00a0\u00aba\u00a0new world.\u00bb<\/p>\n<p>Previously, \u00abZhanzhaza\u00bb had been published in\u00a0several languages. The American readership is\u00a0encountering a\u00a0Kyrgyz novel for the first time in\u00a042\u00a0years since the publication of\u00a0Chingiz Aitmatov\u2019s \u00abThe Day Lasts More Than a\u00a0Hundred Years\u00bb in\u00a0the U.S. in\u00a01983.<\/p>\n<p>The release of\u00a0Sultan Raev\u2019s novel in\u00a0New York is\u00a0hailed as\u00a0a\u00a0new milestone in\u00a0the development of\u00a0Kyrgyz literature as\u00a0part of\u00a0global culture.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The novel \u00abZhanzhaza\u00bb by\u00a0Kyrgyz writer Sultan Raev has been released in\u00a0New York in\u00a0English under the title \u00abCastigation\u00bb. The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":371515,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3938],"tags":[3444,77,16,15,83268,83271,83270,83267,7864,83269,83266,83265,83272],"class_list":{"0":"post-371514","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-books","8":"tag-books","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-83268","13":"tag-83271","14":"tag-83270","15":"tag-83267","16":"tag-7864","17":"tag-83269","18":"tag-83266","19":"tag-83265","20":"tag-83272"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115087670417237256","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371514","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=371514"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371514\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/371515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=371514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=371514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=371514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}