About the book: 2020 / This story is about a rare case of creating a family between a Kazakh and a Chechen woman. The union was largely forced, but saved many people and families from death during that turbulent time. The story “Maryam” describes real, non-fictional events that took place during the period from the 1920s to the 2000s of the last century. Famine in Kazakhstan, the Great Patriotic War, deportation of Chechens in 1944 to Central Asia, life after the death of Stalin.