Listen.

The telling begins July 18

The Manas has reached English before

In scholarly editions. In single episodes. In rhymed verse
translated out of Russian by a man who did not speak Kyrgyz.

It has never been told as a story.

Book One of Ten

MANAS: The Love

MANAS: The Love — Book One, hardcover

The Manas Saga · Book One

The national epic of the Kyrgyz people — among the longest works of oral literature ever composed, carried for a thousand years not in books but in the memory of the manaschi, the singers who held the whole of it by heart.

Drawn from the telling of the great manaschi Sayakbay Karalaev.

Pre-order on Amazon · $4.99 The Founder's Edition · $19

Ebook launches everywhere July 18. Paperback to follow.

Before you decide

Read Chapter One. Free.

Read the opening chapter right here, right now — and have first word when each of the ten books arrives.

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The World of Manas

The World of Manas — illustrated map: Talas, Bukhara, Tash-Saray, the Ala-Too ranges, the roads to Beijing

From Talas to Bukhara, from Beijing to the Ala-Too. The full illustrated map travels only with the Founder's Edition.

The Founder's Edition · $19

  • The complete ebook — EPUB & PDF, DRM-free
  • The World of Manas — the full high-resolution map
  • Your name printed in the acknowledgments of Book Two
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