Details:

Pages: 304
Format: 130 X 195
Word count ≈ 51 500
ISBN: 9789941375903

RODZINA,

or the Spying during the Latter Days

Author: Aka Morchiladze

Description: 

Aka Morchiladze’s most recent novel illustrates the fragility of a totalitarian system and reveals the cracks of the late Stalin era. The text, layered with myriad narrative styles including an archaic chronicler language, reads like a fever dream of a dictator.

These were the times when Stalin had already established his regime and rule, setting fear and a certain model of etiquette that was guarded by everyone under his chain of authority. KGB is as alert as ever, and they have moles everywhere. The plot features internationals like an American journalist and an Indian emissary, whose moves and actions are carefully watched.

As Stalin’s reputation terrorizes every single soul in his Soviet empire, his former loyal servants get locked away for various paranoic reasons, while Lavrenti Beria, another ruthless politician, and Stalin’s secret police chief, might appear to be plotting treachery.