Honey and a Bit of Wormwood

The story of one Kazakh family over the course of a century. Dekulakization, war, the turbulent nineties, personal losses, and small victories — through the eyes of three generations of women.The eldest, Akbalzhan, was married off at sixteen to save... her from hunger. What made her flee into the unknown with two small children? Will she find love and happiness? Will she be able to preserve herself, her native language, her mother's tales and songs in a foreign land and pass them on to her daughters? And what force will draw her granddaughter back to her ancestors' homeland sixty years later?Based on true events, with elements of artistic fiction.