An excerpt from the novel “Me’mor”

The excerpt takes place in the Timurid era, in the time of Shohrux. After the architect Najmiddin Buxoriy’s only son Nizomiddin is executed for taking part in a plot against Shohrux, the architect returns from Herat to his native Bukhara with his wife Ma’suma beka and daughter Badia. With them go his pupils Zulfiqor and Zavrak, the coachman Horunbek and the rich man’s son G‘avvos Muhammad. Frightened in the desert, G‘avvos wants to turn back, but after the storm he fetches water from the river and kills a snake on the way, and so clears his name. During the storm the architect sees the shape of a great palace among the whirlwinds and sketches it in his notebook; crossing the Jayhun on a raft, they reach Movarounnahr.