Wild Beach. Aflatuni S.

What is Central Asia? The country of Ravshan and Jamshud, humiliated, insulted, in cheap rhinestones and artificial silk, the country of market backyards and the unpronounceable names of minibus drivers?.. Or is it the country of the amorous Scheherazade, the legendary Sinbad the Sailor and the rogue Aladdin? Sukhbat Aflatuni does not give straightforward answers. His Asia is very diverse. Here is the gardener's daughter, who went mad after her father's death and turned into a tree. And here is a peri — a Muslim paradise "fairy", the escort of a foreigner who came to Russia to heal his broken heart. And also — a beloved grandmother, who flew down from a star on a plate and stayed on earth with a man... they all seem like fiction, but in every fiction there is a grain of truth...