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Abay's path is an epic novel by Mukhtar Auezov, describing the life of the famous Kazakh poet Abay Kunanbayev. The first epic written in the Kazakh language. "Abay's path" is widely known in Kazakhstan and far beyond its borders. The epic novel consists of four books.

The protagonist of the novel is a real historical person, a great poet, the founder of Kazakh written literature, educator Abay Kunanbayev. In the novel the panorama full of drama and contradictions of national life, life and customs of nomadic and settled steppe inhabitants of the end of the XIX century is developed, in full force the breadth and beauty of freedom-loving soul of the Kazakh people, his dreams of the best, his hopes and aspirations, his peculiar spiritual way, national character is shown.

In 1948, the novel (1-2 books) was awarded the Stalin prize, and in 1959, after the end of the epic, he was awarded the Lenin prize as an outstanding work of socialist realism.

Высказывание о романе «Путь Абая»
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