Revolution Baby:  Motherhood and Anarchy in Kyrgyzstan was launched at the Royal West of England

  Academy in Bristol on Saturday 17^th November 2007.

 

  Two hundred guests enjoyed Kyrgyz hospitality – vodka shots, salami and pickles, boiled sweets, nuts,

  apricots and borsok, a Kyrgyz donut kindly made and donated by Nora from the Kyrgyz-Kazakh restaurant

  in Camberwell Road, London.

 

  Representatives of the Kyrgyz Embassy attended and the author Saffia Farr presented Gulbara Abdrazakova,

  wife of the Ambassador, with a copy of Revolution Baby.

 

 

 

  The author presenting a book to Gulbara Abdrazakova wife of the Kyrgyz

  Ambassador to the United Kingdom.

 

  The author is wearing hand embroidered coat designed and made

  by Dilbar, Bishkek.

 

 

 

 Guests were welcomed to the festival with vodka,

 traditionally used for celebratory toasts in Kyrgyzstan.

 

 

 

 

 

Tim Hutton from Yurt Works in Bodmin was displaying one of his yurts.

 

 

 

 

 

  Anara, dressed in traditional Kyrgyz costume, was selling felt crafts

  handmade in Kyrgyzstan.

 

 

 

 Two yurts, traditional nomadic felt tents, were on display.  One is owned by the author and was made by hand

  in a remote village in Kyrgyzstan.  One was made by Tim Hutton of Yurt Works.

 

 

       

 

 

 

  A welcome from Matthew Bullock, Sally Floyd and Nick Brealey in Kyrgyz costume.

 

      

 

 Sally Floyd wore traditional Kyrgyz costume, the “elechek” hat irreverently referred to in Revolution Baby

 as the Christmas-cake hat.

 

 

 

 

 

The author gave a speech thanking all those who had helped her publish the book and make the evening such a success.

 

 

Comments:

“Very many thanks for your kind hospitality on Saturday at the book launch. We thoroughly enjoyed the evening and it was very well organised and most interesting. I found it quite emotional at times.”

“Thank you so much for having us to the Book Launch of your book "Revolution Baby" on Saturday evening...it was so kind of you to include us and we enjoyed it so much...it was a  very happy, friendly, delicious and interesting evening. Your speech was brilliant...and we are longing to read your book... “

 “Congratulations on a splendid launch with so many interesting people and things to see."