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The book won the &quote;Horse Award&quote; for the 11th National Minority Literature Creation Novel Award. For contemporary Uighur literature, Alati Asmu is undoubtedly one of the writers with modern meaning. His way of thinking, writing technique, narrative method and text structure are all ahead of time. In this novel, the author tells us a story about forgiveness in poetic language. Asha, the ... Read more

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