Dried-up in meetings & other short stories : English 1998

Mir Jalal (Pashayev) was one of Azerbaijan's most gifted short story writers when it came to satirizing Soviet bureaucracy. With tongue in cheek, he adeptly and succinctly pokes fun at the core of the political system that established itself in his country when he was a mere boy of 12 years old. Mr Jalal's glimpses of everyday life are entertaining, informative, and on occasion, hilariously exaggerated. But they document the psychological transformation of a society that for generations was rewarded for denying common sense and for stifling personal intuition and initiative. This anthology. published on the occasion of Mir Jalal's 90th jubilee, is the inaugural volume of the Azerbaijan Literature Series published by Azerbaijan International.