Erkin A'zam's book in English comprises two novellas, The Din and A Tender-hearted Dwarf, and two short stories, The Writer's Garden and A dog bit the Incomer's Daughter, which previously have been published by the Uzbek representative office of UNESCO under the title Farewell to Fairy Tales. The newly-translated novella Gooli-Gooli is published for the first time.

The Din follows the career of an Uzbek playwright at a turning point in history - the turbulent and unpredictable nineteen nineties. Farhad (Fidel)...