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Abai's way The path of Abay is the epic novel by Mukhtar Auezov, describing the life of the famous Kazakh poet Abay Kunanbayev. The first epic, written in Kazakh language. “The Path of Abay” 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, founder of the Kazakh written literature, enlightener Abai Kunanbayev. In the novel there is a panorama of full drama and contradictions of national life, life and customs of nomadic and sedentary steppe people of the late XIX century, the fullness and beauty of the freedom-loving soul of the Kazakh people, their dreams for the best, their hopes and aspirations, their peculiar spiritual structure, national character.

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

Saying about the novel “The Way of Abai”
Alfred Curella: “This is incredible, amazing! The steppe came to life and went to you, with all the magnificence of its pristine nature, its gesture and whole characters. And what Shakespearean passions! You feel the era as in no scientific study. ”

Benjamin Matip:

... "I have never heard of the Kazakhs before. And now I know them very well, I know, because I read the wonderful book of Mukhtar Auezov in English. I met a wonderful man and poet of the Kazakh people Abay, with his wise grandmother Zera and mother Ulzhan, with his beloved girls — Togzhan and Aigerim, with Abai’s friends — kind and brave people. I loved these heroes, loved them as if they had lived for many years, shared their grief and joy. I have a feeling that I am now among them and breathing the air of your steppes. In fact, what a beautiful people - the Kazakhs! And how beautifully it is written about him in the novel “Abai!”. I heartily envy your happy people, and I congratulate you, Mukhtar Auezov, on an immortal work. " Louis Aragon: "In other countries of this world it is very difficult to find such a work that compares with this; in my opinion, this work is one of the best works of the XX century."