Narrative
Alvido, bolalik
Not translated into English
Tohir Malik · 1989
Synopsis
Three teenagers, Asror, Salim and Qamariddin, each take the path of delinquency for his own reasons. None of them found among his family the understanding, or the trusted adult, who might have held him back, and around them a family, the Keldiyorovs, embodies corruption and the scramble for positions. The narrative follows these boys on the threshold of adulthood, between their childhood dreams, their friendships and the trials that await them.
Context
The story appeared in 1989, in the last years of the Soviet Union. It deals with juvenile delinquency and looks for its causes in families: parental indifference, a failed upbringing, the lack of an adult to confide in. Uzbek critics also read it as an account of adolescence, friendship and trials. A few years later, its author opened the cycle of novels on the criminal world, in four parts published from 1994 to 2001, which is read in the countries of the former Soviet Union.
Who it is for
In Uzbek, with no French version. A narrative of more than three hundred pages in its recent editions, easy to read.
Prizes and reception
Reissued in Tashkent in 2016 and again in 2019, the narrative is the subject of university studies on adolescence and crime.
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