My Road of Life

About the Book

"My Road of Life" is his last work written during the Soviet rule.

This book treasures love; love of everyone, love to motherland, history, culture. The book speaks out for the whole Azerbaijani people expressing its benevolent nature and good will.

The 90s of the last century marked Azerbaijan’s history with independence from the Soviet regime and greatly contributed to introduce "My Road of Life" as one of the cult books of those times, spreading thoughts and spirit of liberty, independence, nation’s self-governance. Fighters for independence used to came to The Liberty Square in Baku with this book in their hands to demand the end of the authoritarian Soviet dominance. The book encouraged the young generation of those times to rise and wage the just struggle for future and signaled the complete destruction of the humiliating Soviet dictatorship.

Today "My Road of Life" is a versed relic echoing the ardent freedom-loving spirit of the Azerbaijani people on their long way to hard-fought victory.

About the Author

Sabir Rustamkhanli is one the brilliant representatives of the contemporary literary and public thought of Azerbaijan. Civil spirit and delicate lyricism inherent to his poetry and popular writings have won him the love of the nation.

He is the founder of the first democratic and independent newspaper in Azerbaijan.

His fiction and popular writings have laid the ideological foundations of national independence, and he himself was one of the leaders of the national liberation movement.

His first book of poems appeared in 1970. Up to present his 16 books of poems, prose and popular writings have been published. Each book have become literary events in the literature of Azerbaijan and played an important role in the formation of the consciousness of the youth.

His books have been translated into a number of languages, appeared in Turkey, in Russia, in Sweden, moving him to the first rank of names with capital letters in the Turkic world.