Selected works. Volume one.
Gafur Gulyam publishers.
Tashkent 1969.
A novel
INVINCIBLE SANDJAR
Parts one,
two,
three, four, five, and six.
Short stories
AT THE FERRIAGE
THE END OF A GREAT ISHAN
SIPAICHI
ALISHERS'S MANUSCRIPT
THE BEAR DANCE
SUFI
MY GOOD FRIEND
THE DISCLOSURE OF THE UNCLE DANIYAR
The whole career of M. Sheverdin as a writer is related to Uzbekistan. His works are devoted to the fight of Uzbek people and other peoples of Central Asia against the international imperialism and its hirelings in the years of the Civil War and the Great Patriotic War.
It is quite understandable. More than 50 years from the beginning of the Great October Revolution the writer M. Sheverdin, who celebrates his 70-th anniversary in 1969, almost literally is "in the saddle" — he takes part in establishing the Soviet Power in Turkistan; he crosses mountains and deserts with scientific and geologic commodities research expeditions; he works in Bolshevic mass media and regional headquarters of the Communist Party. Heroes of M. Sheverdin's novels are people of a big valiancy and the same time heartwarming people — they are soldiers of the Red Army, they are dehkans and workers, they are Uzbeks, Tadjics, Turkmens, and Russians, they do not draw back in front of difficulties and danger, they remember their human dignity even in their hard times.
Along with the heroes of his works the writer leads the reader to fascinating travels across kishlaks and valleys, across adust steppes and green oases in Soviet Central Asia and in the other countries of East. He leads the reader to the streets of the cities of the Arabian Nights Entertainments, along with the reader he fights for the freedom against brutal colonizers in the squads of bellicose nomads, he got to "Devil idolaters" and he destroys guileful plans of English, Nazi's and other imperialistic espionage agencies.
This issue of M. Sheverdin's selected works is dedicated to 70-th anniversary of the writer. It includes his famous novels such as "Invincible Sandjar", "Along the wolf trace", "The alarm bell" ("The web" and "The Agate finger-ring"), "Shadows in the desert" ("Befoul men" and "Ever in travel"), "Seven death sins", and some selected stories.
If you have some additional information about this writer or if you wish to help me in translating his works into English, please, send an e-mail to G.O. Neznamov g _ o _ n e z n a m o v @ m a i l . r u.
Civil War (1918-1922) - here it means the civil war on the territory of Russian Empire just after the Great October Revolution. In some places (e. g. in the mountains of Soviet Central Asia) this war lasted up to 1932.
Great Patriotic War (1941-1945), the war of Soviet Union against Hitler's Germany, a part of the World War Two.
Dehkans, peasants of Central Asia.
Kishlak, a small village in Central Asia.
