The Warmth of Native Steppes

A SAGA OF FOUR GENERATIONS OF ONE FAMILY IN KAZAKHSTAN BY THE AUTHOR OF “WHITE STEPS,” LAUREATE OF THE KHMAO GOVERNOR’S AWARD.

Four generations. One memory. The eternal steppe…

Alma-Ata, 1937.
Zabira is the daughter of Kazakhstan’s minister of justice; she lives in a world of school concerts and carefree youth.
But the arrest of her father in a single night turns her into an exile.
Together with her husband, she flees to the Urals, where the family faces poverty, war, and famine. But through suffering a new life takes root: Zabira’s daughter becomes an artist, and her granddaughter Zalina learns about her repressed great-grandfather and legendary ancestors—and returns to the native steppes of Kazakhstan, where it all began.

A saga of memory that cannot be broken by repression, and of roots stronger than any storms.
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“After reading the novel ““Steps in Bloom”” the call of the dombra does not fade in my ears; the melodies of the küy and the wind seem to continue carrying the breath of the native land, where the steppe unfolds as an endless world that shapes a person’s character and soul.” — Zaki Alibayev, Associate Professor at BSPU named after M. Akmullah, Director of the National Literary Museum of the Republic of Bashkortostan
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It feels like “And Quiet Flows the Don” by Sholokhov, “Entomology for the Weak-Hearted” by Kachur, “White Steps” by Shaikhulov.
Mood: a family saga about repression and historical memory in the atmosphere of the Kazakh steppes and the Urals.