Lapvona László Krasznahorkai Uyghur poetry reflects the magnificent

Uyghur poetry reflects the magnificent natural landscapes at the heart of the Silk Road region

'INIMITABLE' OBSERVER

as a European

Featuring insights about nature

a writer who has just stayed up all night working

Lapvona László Krasznahorkai Uyghur poetry reflects the magnificentIn a village in a medieval fiefdom, a motherless shepherd boy finds himself the unlikely pivot in a power struggle that puts faith to a savage test. Little Marek, the abused and delusional son of the village shepherd, never knew his mother; his father told him she died in childbirth. One of life's few consolations for Marek is his enduring bond with the blind village midwife, Ina, who suckled him when he was a baby, as she did so many of the village's