The first part of the novel "Həsrətin o üzü" by the head of the Department of Turkic peoples literature of ANAS Institute of Literature after Nizami Ganjavi, Doctor of Philology, Professor Mammad Aliyev has been published. The author's first large-scale work of art was published with the epigraph "I dedicate it to the memory of my mother Zuleykha".
The author of the foreword "Years of longing" is Doctor of Philology, Professor Nizameddin Shamsizade. "On the problems, genre features, artistic images and language of the novel" of the last word belongs to Doctor of Philology Salida Sharifova.The editor of the book is Maya Hasanli, the compiler is Sugrat Mammadova, the designer is Nigar Tagiyeva. The 520-page book was published by "Elm ve Tehsil" Publishing House.
The book reflects the crisis lifestyle of a family in the context of socio-political processes in Azerbaijan in the 50s and 60s of the twentieth century.
The first part of the novel consists of eight chapters.
