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Since it seems we have set foot in a new era, fine, we should follow the spirit of this new age and its innovative forms of expression and, just as with those who wrote dastans, we should renew our creative impulse through the novel and the short story— and in that vein, I am also driven by a sense of obligation to familiarize our people with the Tahirs and Zuhras, the four dervishes, the Farhads and Shirins, and the Bahram Gurs of our time.

As such, I have had a strong desire to experiment with our era’s means of capturing the creative impulse, namely the novel, and in so doing, I have fulfilled my goal by producing O’tkan Kunlar. One could say that people can only further advance their skills through slow, methodical development and through meeting their shortcomings face to face at the outset of their endeavor. My wish has been to put this aphorism to test and not shrink in fear from my many failures and setbacks, which are often attached to one so overly enthusiastic.

They say that history will teach us the mistakes of the past. With that in mind I have drawn upon the darkest and filthiest days of our history, not so long ago, mind you, that being the epoch of the khans.

Abdullah Qodiry (Julqulboi)