The white mosque: a memoir

Part one: Wanderers. Tashkent: a more dazzling vison ; The hunger steppe: to transform the world into signs ; Samarkand: I have set before thee an open door

Part two: Home-ache. Kok Ota: sad comedy at the border ; Bukhara: safely to arrive at home ; The desert: the wall is no more, nor those who daubed it

Part three: The place of refuge. Khiva: all in a pale and ghostly light ; Ak Metchet: the world didn'd end ; Tashkent: a land gleams at us from afar.