Waiting for the Electricity
A Novel
In the republic of Georgia, the Communists are long gone, replaced by . . . well, by what? Something much more confusing. There are no jobs in the cities. And when there are jobs, employees aren't compensated. And when they are compensated, it's because the jobs are . . . not strictly scrupulous. In the village, life goes on much as it always did, but these days, the homemade farmers cheese is giving way to the oil pipeline. And as for romance in this strange, confounding modern age . . . the less said, the better. But there's one man in Georgia who remains unseduced by corruption, unfazed by nostalgia, and unable to abandon chivalry, no matt…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-4683-1044-3
- EAN: 9781468310443
- Produktnummer: 30599917
- Verlag: Abrams
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2014
- Seitenangabe: 336 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 1'641 KB
Über den Autor
Christina Nichol is a 2012 recipient of a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers' Award. Nichol grew up in the Bay Area, studied at the University of Oregon, and received her MFA from the University of Florida. She has traveled widely, worked for nonprofit film companies, and taught English in India, South Korea, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, Kosovo, and, of course, Georgia. Her work has been published in Harper's, Guernica and Lucky Peach. Waiting for the Electricity is her first book.
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