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这是一个关于缓慢消逝的故事，随着沙粒，随着时间，在世界的尽头，一段穿越后苏联时代的中亚地区和中国新疆的旅程。我读过吉尔吉斯斯坦诗人 TCHINGUIZ AYTMATOV 的“DJAMILIA”，它让我幻想着迷失在草原上的集体农庄和生活那里的人们：乌兹别克人、哈萨克人、吉尔吉斯人、卡拉卡尔帕克斯人……

从 2002 年到 2005 年，我设法前往咸海地区，包括哈萨克斯坦，乌兹别克斯坦，吉尔吉斯斯坦伊塞克湖畔和新疆。《楼兰美人》讲述了这些来自世界中部的人、沉没王国的继承人、没有大海的渔民、期盼在远方工作的父母能早日归来而跳舞的孩子、梦想美国的萝拉、听黄沙歌唱的男人，有着一千根花辫的女孩，就像在楼兰发现的那些人，他们四千年前的祖先。

一个藏室，由于缺乏空间和金钱。1984年，在筋疲力尽之前，SAVITSKY选择了MARINIKA来接替他。

从那时起，她为了NUKUS，与来自咸海（距离NUKUS仅一百公里）的咸风抗争，这些咸风会损坏画作，与那些想用画作发不义之财的人抗争，同去塔什干与女儿们一起生活的愿望抗争，NUKUS，这里曾经有一个剧院、电影院和美丽的花园，现在已经变成了一个鬼城。不过，MARINIKA 得到了几个认与SAVITSKY相识的女性的帮助。知道她会留在这里直到最后，以兑现她的承诺。

新疆（中国）

楼兰美人* 是一具四千年前的木乃伊。她的名字和她传奇般的美貌，以及对一次重要邂逅的预感，将我带到了乌鲁木齐，进入了将她作为高加索血缘而保存的博物馆，她在27年前在罗布泊的戈壁上被发现在，在中国遥远的西部地区，楼兰是一个繁荣的王国的名字，一个大湖旁的绿洲，中国人曾经称之为“咸海”。

楼兰真的是像伊努* 写的那样，是一位公主，在大湖消失后，在她的废弃城镇中自杀了吗？更可能的是，她是这些绿眼“中国人”的祖先。维吾尔人，说土耳其语的人，乌兹别克人的堂兄弟。生活在该国最西部的西努塘沙漠中的人。

楼兰在TIEBAN RIVER三角洲被挖掘出来。死时在四十到四十五岁之间。身高一米五六。

她穿着连衣裙和皮鞋，梳着长辫子：与今天草原上女孩一样。

* 或维吾尔人的“KRORAN”

* 日本作家，《楼兰》作者

THIS IS A STORY OF A SLOW DISAPPEARANCE, INTO THE SAND AND IN TIME, THE END OF A WORLD, A TRIP THROUGH POST SOVIET CENTRAL ASIA AND XINJIANG PROVINCE IN CHINA. I HAD READ "DJAMILIA", BY THE KYRGYZ POET TCHINGUIZ AYTMATOV, AND IT MADE ME DREAM OF THE KOLKHOZES LOST IN THE STEPPES AND OF ITS PEOPLES: UZBEKS, KAZAKHS, KYRGYZS, KARAKALPAKS..

FROM 2002 TO 2005, I MANAGED TO TRAVEL TO THE ARAL REGION, IN KAZAKHSTAN, UZBEKISTAN, ON THE BANKS OF THE ISSYK KUL IN KYRGYZSTAN AND IN XINJIANG. "LOULAN BEAUTY" IS THE STORY OF THESE PEOPLES FROM THE MIDDLE OF THE WORLD, HEIRS OF SUNKEN KINGDOMS, OF FISHERMEN WITHOUT A SEA, OF CHILDREN WHO DANCE TO BRING BACK THEIR PARENTS WHO WORK FAR AWAY, OF LOLA WHO DREAMS OF AMERICA, OF MEN WHO LISTEN TO THE SANDS SINGING, OF GIRLS WITH A THOUSAND BRAIDS, JUST LIKE THOSE FOUND ON LOULAN, THEIR FOUR THOUSAND YEAR OLD ANCESTOR.

A STOREROOM, DUE TO A LACK OF SPACE AND MONEY. BEFORE DYING OF EXHAUSTION, IN 1984, SAVITSKY CHOSE MARINIKA TO SUCCEED HIM.

SINCE THEN, SHE STRUGGLES AGAINST THE SALTY WINDS COMING FROM THE ARAL SEA (ONLY A HUNDRED KILOMETERS FROM NUKUS) THAT DAMAGE THE PAINTINGS, AGAINST THOSE WHO WOULD LIKE TO MAKE EASY MONEY OUT OF THE PAINTINGS, AND RESISTS HER WILL TO GO TO TASHKENT TO JOIN HER DAUGHTERS, FOR NUKUS, WHICH USED TO HAVE A THEATRE, CINEMAS AND BEAUTIFUL GARDENS, HAS NOW BECOME A GHOST TOWN. BUT MARINIKA, HELPED BY A FEW WOMEN WHO KNEW SAVITSKY. KNOWS SHE WILL STAY HERE UNTIL THE END TO KEEP HER PROMISE.

XINJIANG(CHINA)

LOULAN BEAUTY* IS A FOUR THOUSAND YEAR OLD MUMMY. HER NAME AND HER LEGENDARY BEAUTY, BUT ALSO THE PREMONITION OF AN IMPORTANT ENCOUNTER, HAD LED ME TO URÜMQI, INTO THE MUSEUM WHERE SHE IS KEPT OF CAUCASIAN ORIGIN, SHE WAS FOUND TWENTY SEVEN YEARS AGO IN THE SANDS OF LOB NOR, IN THE FAR WEST OF CHINA LOULAN WAS THE NAME OF A PROSPEROUS KINGDOM, AN OASIS LOCATED NEAR A HUGE LAKE, WHICH THE CHINESE USED TO CALL "THE SALTY SEA"

WAS LOULAN A PRINCESS, AS WRITTEN BY INOUÊ*, WHO COMMITTED SUICIDE IN HER ABANDONED TOWN AFTER THE LAKE HAD VANISHED ? MORE PROBABLY SHE IS THE ANCESTOR OF THESE GREEN EYED "CHINESE". THE UYGHURS, TURKISH SPEAKING PEOPLE, COUSINS OF THE UZBEKS. WHO LIVE IN THE XINUTANG DESERTS IN THE FAR WEST OF THE COUNTRY.

EXHUMED IN THE DELTA OF THE TIEBAN RIVER, IN THE NORTH OF THE OLD CITY. LOULAN WAS BETWEEN FORTY AND FORTY FIVE YEARS OLD WHEN SHE DIED. AND WAS ONE METER AND FIFTY SIX CENTIMETERS TALL.

SHE WEARS A DRESS AND LEATHER SHOES, LONG BRAIDS: THE SAME AS THE ONES WORN TODAY BY THE GIRLS OF THE STEPPES.

* OR " KRORAN" FOR THE UYGHURS

* JAPANESE WRITER, AUTHOR OF " LOU-LAN