#269
Title: The Dancer from Khiva: One Muslim Woman's Quest for Freedom
Author: Bibish
Translator: Andrew Bromfield
Publisher: Black Cat
Year: 2008
Country: Uzbekistan
248 pages
This memoir works in some ways and not in others. Bibish begins her life story with some early brutalizations, moving chronologically through childhood, young adulthood, and to sometime near the present. What is effective is the description of village life in Uzbekistan. However, the narrative's trajectory seems fairly random. Why does Bibish no longer dance? Why does she cease to teach? What are her relationships like? What "quest for freedom"? The story, for all its action, is curiously flat and, in the absence of a guiding theme or obtained moral, seems strangely pointless.
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