About the book: 1985 / Novel. Per. from Uzbek V. Osipova. - M.: Sov.pisatel, 1985. Kamil Yashen - an outstanding Uzbek prose writer, playwright, State Prize laureate, Hero of Socialist Labor - created a wide canvas of pre-revolutionary, revolutionary and the first years after the establishment of Soviet power in Uzbekistan. The main character of the work is the poet, playwright and fiery revolutionary Hamza Hakim-zade Niyazi, whose heart, mind, and talent were wide open to all the passions and storms of his time. Traced from youth to adulthood, the hero's life path is given against the backdrop of the main events of the era.