Jamilia - Chingiz Aitmatov

\n \nThe most beautiful love story in the world.--Louis Aragon\n \nThe Second World War is raging, and Jamilia's husband is off fighting at the front. Accompanied by Daniyar, a sullen newcomer who was wounded on the battlefield, Jamilia spends her days hauling sacks of grain from the threshing floor to the train station in their village in the Caucasus.\n \nSpurning men's advances and wincing at the dispassionate letters she receives from her husband, Jamilia falls helplessly in love with the my