O’TKAN KUNLAR

O’TKAN KUNLAR
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The venerable Uzbek people originally occupied a vast area ranging from Siberia in the north to Turkistan and Afghanistan in the south. It is well documented in historical and literary sources that we engaged for centuries in a cross-fertilization of economic, cultural and scientific knowledge that moved forward the march of humanity. Unfortunately, either through the vicissitudes of time or through human indifference, since the 1920s artificial boundaries have dampened that give-and- take. This is particularly true in the region of Turkistan where barriers between the peoples of Uzbekistan and Afghanistan persist to this day. And as with our own disjointed and divided lands, I wonder then how to best create closer ties between Uzbekistan and America? Ten centuries ago our countryman Abu Rahan Beruni in his Codex Masudicus exhibited great prescience in discovering the Earth’s circumference, thus theorizing the existence of the Americas: “We propose a land exists beyond our own known world.” One thousand years later we find ourselves arriving full circle from Al Beruni’s prophecy through relations between Uzbekistan and the United States—and in the spirit of his work we should see a literary and cultural exchange. We Uzbeks especially need to familiarize our own community of creatives engaged in literary endeavors with the full landscape of American literary production—not only well-known writers such as William Faulkner or Langston Hughes, but also contemporary ones such as Margaret Atwood. On their end, I believe that it would not be a great stretch of imagination to add Abdullah Qodiriy to that canon of writers. As you read his novel O’tkan Kunlar, decide for yourselves if our hero Otabek would be as at home on the streets of New York as he was in Tashkent and Margilan. What about the humanitarian spirit of Yusufbek Hajji with his flowing white beard rendering aid to the suffering in Washington, D.C. or in Oxford, Mississippi? Isn’t Uzbek Oyim with her sharp tongue standing as mistress over her domestic domains someone you might know? Or, would it defy credulity to imagine the same strength of spirit in our Uzbek women exhibited through Kumush in your own American cities and small towns? Those who appear to us in the novel are not just literary constructs solely concerned with Uzbek identity, but also universal symbols imbued with the same spirit of America. We must recognize that those esteemed and beloved characters that form our novel’s narrative also exhibit the same sense of dignity and achievement characteristic of Americans. Our mutual values of what is good and true should persist, forever instilled in each other’s culture. I believe that Mark Reese’s loving translation of Abdullah Qodiriy’s novel O’tkan Kunlar into English has achieved that end. Literature forms the foundation of a people, of a homeland through its timeless draw upon a universal consciousness. It gives purpose and enlightens the soul through the melody of the human heart. That melody gives form to humanity, if we will only listen. In that thread I believe that if the message of the novel O’tkan Kunlar were to make its way into the hearts and minds of readers in America and around the world, even a small precious sliver, it will become a part of them and lift them up, making content the spirit of my grandfather Abdullah Qodiriy in his place of rest.

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Абдулла Кодирий. O’TKAN KUNLAR

FOREWORD TO O’TKAN KUNLAR

Introduction

Acknowledgements

About The Translation

O’tkan Kunlar (Bygone Days)

VOLUME ONE

From The Author

1. Otabek, Son Of Yusufbek Hajji

2. A Young Man Suitable For The Khan’s Daughter

3. Bek In Love

4. He Does Not Like The Weather In Margilan

5. If Only I Had This Kind Of Son-in-Law

6. Bloody Clouds Over Tashkent

7. Responsibility

8. Congratulations!

9. Welcoming

10. TOI, KIZLAR MAJLISI

11. An Unexpected Happiness

12. Slander

13. Jail

14. Seeking Help From Tashkent

15. Tashkent Under Siege

16. Azizbek

17. Yusufbek Hajji

18. Announcement

19. The Verdict

20. Languishing For Freedom

21. Revolution

22. One Poor Miserable Wretch

23. Musulmanqul

VOLUME TWO

UZR

1. The Aspirations Of Parents

2. Will You Not Forget Me?

3. The Sash Of Mad The Gourd

4. THE HINDU JODUGAR

5. Treachery

6. Burning With Fever

7. Qutidor Expels Otabek From His Doors

8. Happiness And Unhappiness

9. What To Do For One Who Cannot Forget

10. Who Cries The Most Among Us; Or, In The Grip Of Suffering

11. Navo; Or, Melody Of The Novel

12. Horrifying News And A Terrible Night

13. An Unsmiling Happiness

14. On The Trail Of The Enemy

15. Monday Night

16. Recognising Himself

17. The Sympathetic Murderer

VOLUME THREE

1. Musulmanqul’s Tyranny Finds Its End

2. Dark Days

3. The Massacre Of The Qipchaqs

4. It Is Impossible To Hide The Moon With An Apron; Or, Murder Will Out

5. The Letter

6. Capricious Uzbek Oyim; Zainab’s Sorrow

7. Meeting Of The In-Laws

8. Underlying Hostility

9. Hajji Shakes The Hem Of His Robe; In Which He Renounces Worldly Affairs

10. Hasan Ali’s Trick

11. Kumush’s Word Game

12. A Kundosh Will Always Be A Kundosh

13. We Will See Each Other In Better Times

14. Khushroi Bibi And Zainab

15. She Comes To Her Senses

16. Her Delivery Date Nears

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Translator: Mark E. Reese

English editor: Anne McPeak with Sal Robinson and Alexandria Laureys

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“To you too: Congratulations on your new son.”

“You are most welcome,” said Qutidor, from the heart. “May all your wishes come true.”

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