The paper will address imaginations of Poland and of Central Europe in contemporary Kazakhstani literature, focusing on the fictional works of Yurii Serberiansky. Kazakhstan is home to one the world’s largest communities of ethnic Poles outside of Poland, to descendants of hundreds of thousands of men, women, and children who were deported by the Soviet regime from the occupied Polish territories in the 1940s. Serebriansky, one of the country’s best known russophone writers, is a prominent representative of this vibrant community; many of his works are centered on the memory of the deportations as well as on questions of contemporary Kazakhstani-Polish identity. At the same time, he continuously explores modern-day Poland, its various regions, cities, and landscapes. In his texts, Poland emerges as a transnational lieu de mémoire, as a complex space defined by tensions between the nationalistic and the cosmopolitan, the local and the global, as (Central) European and the non-European at once. The paper will argue that instead of treating the concept of Central Europe as a strictly European affair, Serebriansky expands its boundaries; by imagining Central Europe as a nexus between Central Asia, Europe, and the world at large, he posits it as a genuinely global one. Ultimately, the paper will inquire after parallels between the concepts of Central Europe and Central Asia by analyzing the notion of ‘centrality’ inherent to both these spaces.