Bibish

"[A] remarkable memoir…Eyeopening."
BOOKLIST

"A candid tale of survival."
KIRKUS REVIEWS

"Bibish effectively weaves into her understated narrative snippets of traditions and folk proverbs."
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY

"Experienced authors can wonder us with their skill, but only ingenuous impressions of the living heart can really trouble. You will never forget the book of Bibish, the dancing Usbek. This is a new literature that gives the reader not a virtual yield of the inventive mind, but pieces of hot flesh that are taken by the author from her own bones."
COORDINATOR OF THE PRIZE "NATIONAL BESTSELLER"

"This story shines as a precious stone trampled down in the dirt. It abolishes any literature: the words are changed into a different weight. For a long time after reading this book it is impossible to take fiction and imagined plots seriously."
Aleksandr Gavrilov, KNIZHNOE OBOZRENIE

"The effect froom the book by Bibish is astonishing: it is hard to imagine a more wild and charming combination of incongruous elements... The dancer from Khiva creates not only the literary work, but a human document that is unique in it's forth of influence."
Galina Yuzefovich, EZHENEDELNY ZHURNAL