Novel
Духтари оташ
Not translated into English
Jalol Ikromi · 1962
Synopsis
Духтари оташ (The Daughter of Fire): in Bukhara, under the emirate, Firuza, a young Tajik woman, grows up among the poor craftsmen and humble folk of a city where the emir and his court weigh on every existence. Through her destiny, the novel shows the hard life of the women of the people, their dignity and their honour flouted, the way the inhabitants look at the emir and at the Russian occupation, and the awakening of the workers in the years before the Bukharan revolution.
Context
The novel appeared in Tajik in 1962 and opens a trilogy devoted to Bukhara from 1900 to 1920; the second volume, The Twelve Gates of Bukhara, deals with the revolution of 1920 and the Bukharan People's Republic. Translated into Russian in 1964, it appeared in French as early as 1966 from Progress Publishers in Moscow, in a translation by Antoinette Mazzi made from the Russian, then in Estonian, Arabic and Hindi. E. Grassi counts its author, with Aini and Muhammadiev, among the three great Soviet Tajik prose writers, and a thesis of 2024 on translation from Tajik into French took it as its corpus.
Who it is for
For discovering the fate of poor Tajik women in the former emirate of Bukhara, with a novel translated into French in Moscow.
Prizes and reception
The Great Soviet Encyclopedia ranks this novel, devoted to the life of Tajik women, among the author's principal ones.
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