The dead roam in the sands. Seceenbaev R.

“The dead roam in the sands” (1991)-epic novel and, according to a number of critics, the main work of the Kazakh writer Rollan Seisenbaev. This is a book about many separate lives and the common fate of fellow countrymen of the author, descendants of Nonomad Kazakhs, the free sons of the field. The conquerors from the north once brought the light of scientific knowledge and the constancy of a settled life, and with them many irreparable troubles. Written literature changed folklore, the novel form replaced the heroic epic, the writer took up the place of Zhyrau, and after some time people found themselves on the edge of spiritual death, and nature, which adopted the achievements of technical civilization, came to an environmental disaster.

with amazing fearlessness, the author seeks to understand what made his people turn off the original, destined for the sky, and with even greater ruthlessness finds the reasons for this not in external geopolitical circumstances, but also in fatal vices, spiritual wounds the people themselves. So these days, the question that the wanderers once asked in the middle of an endless desert once asked and hangs with tragic music: “Who are we? Where? Where are we going? "