Plakha

What will happen to a society where humanity, kindness, mercy become abstract concepts, turning into empty words, and the main driving force is the power of money? Is the loss of connection with nature, with one's kin, and the destruction of traditions destructive and tragic for humans and civilization? Chinghiz Aitmatov answers all these questions in one of his most important works, intertwining mythology into the realistic fabric of the narrative.