Mother Earth

5 hrs. 11 min.

Classics

Language Russian

Author Chingiz Aitmatov

Narrator Vyacheslav Manylov

Description

Old Tолгонай, an untiring worker, wise and deeply human, in the autumn of her life has a conversation with the earth and with her native field. Earth, labor, and family were the source of her joy. War took away the dearest. But heavy grief did not break Tolgonai—it could not break her, hardened by work, inexhaustible in her love for people.

The heroes of Chingiz Aitmatov are Soviet people—modest workers of Kyrgyzstan, ardent patriots connected by thousands of threads to the past, present, and future—both their own and that of their people. They are concerned with everything that concerns the entire country. They face the same moral and ethical, human problems; they take part in the same events; they think about the meaning of life and their destiny in the same way.

By telling the world about the Kyrgyz, the writer reveals the soul of his native people, making it understandable and close to all people.