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Bazaar Chubar
Short story (revised and expanded version) · Iradi Literature
Bazaar Chubar
Aikokul Tursunbek kyzy · from Twelve Kilometres (On Eki Chakyrym)
Abstract
A story in eight parts, set in Bazar-Korgon and the walnut valley above it between June and October 2007. Zuhra, the daughter of a lowland walnut buyer, is promised to the son of a hill family when the bazaar's elders invite the Gendarmerie down from Tash-Kömür, and the ceasefire line agreed in Bishkek is drawn along the foot of the hills. A grandmother who came down the same road in 1961, a broken betrothal, a painted pole on an oil drum and four hundred metres of empty asphalt: the bazaar and the hills of one clan, the Chubar, become two sides of a border. This is the author's revised and expanded text of 2019; a shorter version is story 9 of Twelve Kilometres (Arsha Books, 2015; English 2016).
Record
| Title | Bazaar Chubar |
|---|---|
| Author | Aikokul Tursunbek kyzy |
| Part of | Twelve Kilometres (On Eki Chakyrym), no. 9 |
| Form | Short story (revised and expanded version) |
| Written | Bazar-Korgon – Talas, 2014–2019 |
| Language | English |
| Extent | 26 pages · about 8,300 words |
| Subjects | Bazar-Korgon; Fergana Rim; Chubar clan; Walnut trade; Second Civil War (2007); Qara-Chik line; Marriage customs; Kalym |
| Collection | Iradi Literature |
| Accession no. | TSU-DA-2026-0147 |
| Added | 15 October 2026 |
| Rights | © the author. Deposited in the Digital Archive with the author's permission for reading and research. Not for commercial reuse. |
How to cite
Tursunbek kyzy, Aikokul. “Bazaar Chubar.” In Twelve Kilometres (On Eki Chakyrym). National Library of Irad (Talas State University), Digital Archive, TSU-DA-2026-0147. https://talasuniversity.org/library/archive/bazaar-chubar/