Sounds like a must read

This notice in a salon.com article about Central Asia's role in literature caught my eye. See what you think. [no url because you have to be a subscriber].

A more recent novel about Central Asia is Robert Rosenberg's "This Is Not Civilization," published in 2004, which contains what is surely one of contemporary fiction's most beguiling opening lines: "The idea of using porn films to encourage dairy cows to breed was a poor one."