Amanat: Women's Writing from Kazakhstan edited by Zaure Batayeva and Shelley Fairweather-Vega hardie grant Doctor Zhivago is the epic

Doctor Zhivago is the epic story of the life and loves of a poet-physician during the turmoil of the Russian Revolution

The venue was the canteen block of the Red Hammer Cement Works

We follow his bouts of ill health and spiritual crises

Dana Kavelina

Amanat: Women's Writing from Kazakhstan edited by Zaure Batayeva and Shelley Fairweather-Vega hardie grant Doctor Zhivago is the epicDiverse in form and style, Amanat gathers 13 female Kazakhstani voices, revealing the lives, stories, and histories of a nation over the past 30 years. Through the 24 stories translated from Kazakh and Russian the collection explores nostalgia, politics and change, tracing struggles, joys and losses. A man is arrested for a single typo, a woman gets on buses at random, and two friends reunite in a changed world The 24 stories in Amanat, translated