Zaza Burchuladze

Adibas

Buch

War is raging in Georgia, Russian fighter planes are thundering overhead, and yet, for some, the falling bombs cause no more impact than the slight ripple moving through the purified water of their swimming pools, or the rattling of a spoon in their cappuccino cups. Filtered through the bleary and cynical mind of Shako--a journalist famed for his appearance in Georgian Pepsi ads--Adibas is a tragic satire describing the progressive falsification of his life, invaded by consumer goods, consumer sex, consumer carnage. A war novel without a single battle scene, Zaza Burchuladze's English-language debut anatomizes the Western world's ongoing feas… Mehr

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Produktdetails

Weitere Autoren: Sanikidze, Guram (Übers.)

ISBN: 978-1-56478-925-9
EAN: 9781564789259
Produktnummer: 19356659
Verlag: Dalkey Archive Pr
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2014
Seitenangabe: 113 S.
Masse: H21.6 cm x B13.9 cm x D1.2 cm 173 g
Gewicht: 173
Sonstiges: Ab 22 J.

Über den Autor

Zaza Burchuladze was born in Tiflis in 1973. He is a novelist, screenwriter, actor, and translator, beinging many Russian authors into Georgian, including Dostoevsky, Sorokin and Bitov. Long ignored by critics because of his shocking subject matter and experiments with language, Burchuladze is now considered one of the most important writers of post-Soviet Georgian literature.