Details:

Page: 332
Format: 135 x 195 mm
Word: ≈ 60 000
ISBN: 9789941239120

Cupid by the Kremlin Wall

Author: Aka Morchiladze

By the late 1930s, The Great Terror had destroyed any hope of utopian socialism or equality in the Soviet Union. Mr. Retinger, a former revolutionary and KGB officer suddenly disappears from his post in Georgia. Retinger’s wife Musya Eristavi, a renowned revolutionary, decides to travel to the Kremlin to investigate his whereabouts. She plans to approach Stalin himself. Disguised as another woman, carrying her passport and name as an alias, Musya embarks on the train to Moscow. 

The daughter of an eminent lawyer, Musya Eristavi is well-known for her rebellious character and has fought for women’s rights and equality for years approaching the socialist revolution in Georgia. But her advocacy of gender equality has made her unpopular in a patriarchal society. She has begun to realize that utopian socialist ideas have vanished, giving way to Stalin’s totalitarian rule. 

The flashback storyline reveals that her and Stalin were friends in their youth. Strongly believing that the “Red Tzar” should still feel connected to her, Musya sends a few encoded telegrams directly to him during her three-day journey. In a sealed train, Eristavi is surrounded by agents and social scum, and she gets entangled in messy, violent situations. Much to the surprise of everyone following her, Musya stays on course. 

Blurbs:

“Great Novel. A Testament.”
© Indigo Magazine

“Masterclass of awakening the epoch.”
© Beka Adamashvili (writer)

“An unique anti-adventue”
© Archil Kikodze (writer)

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