“Nido” (The Call)
“Nido” (1964) is Erkin Vohidov’s anti-war doston. At its centre is a son who lost his father in the war, which is close to the poet’s own life: his father came back from the war badly wounded and died in 1945. Years later the son remembers his father and seems to hear a call from the earth, “My son!” – the “nido”. The doston paints scenes of a wartime village: wounded returnees, a black notice arriving instead of an awaited letter, and a mother singing a lullaby and teaching her son to live for peace. The work recalls that war cost a great many lives and ends with the idea that all peoples must strive for peace. The textbook also gives Vohidov’s humorous piece “Tandir haqida ertak” for independent reading.
State in order, with one short sentence each, four scenes of the doston (son, father, mother, village).