Immortal Sheep

Author: Yeskiz Khurmambek
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Publish Date: 2003-01-01
Features: The prose collection Eternal Sheep by the Kazakh female writer Yeskiz Khurmambek recounts many mysterious and fascinating stories from her childhood life among the Kazakhs. Although I have lived in Xinjiang for over forty years, those stories remain very unfamiliar to me yet deeply intriguing, like mystical fairy tales. Yeskiz grew up in a world filled with fairy tales, and now, over thirty years later, she speaks with great enthusiasm about those times, inspiring admiration and longing. Yeskiz is both the author and the protagonist of the work. Her narrative of the stories, her perception of the meaning of life in people and things, and her observations and critiques of the world and historical development within a unique regional environment give her fairy tales a special beauty and authenticity, imbuing them with extraordinary emotional resonance.