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Bagrat Shinkuba. The Last of the Departed

FOREWORD

BOOK ONE

Feasting with the dead

When we were at home

Haji Berzek Kerantukh

How the ubykhs met their foster brother

Shardyn, son of Alou

The last council in the house of chestnut wood

A handful of earth

BOOK TWO

Where is that paradise!

Mountains aflame

“There’s no god but Allah”

Back to the land of the ubykhs

Osmankoy

Ubykh women doomed

Along the yellow road of the desert

Along dry rivers

Song of the wounded

BOOK THREE

What can time change?

The brass horn

Our priest’s demise

Mansou, son of Shardyn

Astan Zolak

A newspaper from Abkhasia

On opposite shores

Bytkha’s disappearance and Tagir’s death

The final journey

AFTERWORD

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