The Town and The Saints

Details:

Page: 136
Format: 135 x 195 mm
Word: ≈ 18 000
ISBN: 9789941232817


The Town and The Saints


Author: Tsotne Tskhvediani


Description: 

The debut short story collection The Town and the Saints by Tsotne Tskhvediani features everyday life of the Georgians living in rural provincial towns. Just like everyone, these characters are waiting to get jobs, dream about being famous, and try to overcome the difficulties around them. But all they face is poverty, ordinary lifestyle and despair which brings them to depression. They cannot grasp the wider perspective of their own lives. Although they do have hope for a better future, that hope is never realized. 

One cannot tell exactly whether it is love or hate, sadness or happiness, life or death that appears among the desolation which pervades the town. Each story and its characters are deeply moving so that every reader will be affected and touched and be able to imagine the kind of lifestyle that survives in abandoned and forgotten towns.