Pehla Adhyapak by Chinghiz Aitmatov

"I still wonder how a semi-educated young man who could barely spell, who did not have a single textbook, could dare to undertake such a great work. What a travesty to teach children whose last seven generations had never even heard of the school and certainly knew nothing about Duyshen's curriculum, about its methods of teaching. ...But I am sure. that his enthusiasm, the passion with which he tried to teach us, was not in vain. For us Kyrgyz children who had never stepped outside their village, thanks to that school... Thanks to this, a new world opened before our eyes, a world that we had never heard of or seen before...."

This small novel has a huge influence on contemporary literature and society. It is also translate into 150 languages accross of the world. A must read for our Youth.

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