About the book: 1976 / The story "Wells of the Sultry Valleys" (1974) is a dramatic story of the famous well-digger and his family. “White Aruana” (1968) is a story about a beautiful white camel and her irresistible craving for her native land. “And Eternal Battle!..” (1968) is a completely different thing both in composition and in ideological intensity. The story includes the romantic legend about the captive Persian Seker, and historically reliable pages from the life of the ancestors of the Kazakh people during the period of the beginning collapse of ancient traditions, the crisis of the centuries-old ideal of the professional Kipchak warrior. The novel “Only One Road” (1970) is based on one of Sanbaev’s early stories, “Steppe Stars,” which was later revised. This novel is multifaceted, full of events of the pre- and post-revolutionary days. The spiritual beauty of man and the idea of ​​its highest manifestation - art - formed the basis of the story “When they thirst for myth...” (1972). S. Sanbaev’s next work is the story “Kop-azhal” (1973). Here we are also talking about old national customs and crafts, their value and possibility of application today.