Book of Words ~ Abai 2005

ISBN 10: 9965611114 ISBN 13: 9789965611117 ABAI 1845-1904 The Kazakh poet, composer, translator and social activist, was born and buried in Semipalatinsk province, in what is now the independent Republic of Kazakhstan, but was then part of the Russian Empire. The creative work of Abai is a fusion of thought and feeling, an exchange between the mind and the heart, combining personal experience, history, philosophy and religion, morality and psychology. It is the fruit of the difficult and tragic life of this great poet and man, prophet, thinker and enlightener of the people.