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A Funeral Wake in the Wind
A Funeral Wake in the Wind
ISBN:
978-9941-466-49-6
Category:
Modern Georgian Prose
Pages:
72
Format:
12.5X17
Cover:
Soft
Price:
6.00


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What is A FUNERAL WAKE IN THE WIND – an unexpected tragic comedy, some absurd or magical realism? From the very first phrases, the reader is drawn into an enchanting, frightfully familiar, yet strange creative world, where a completely unimaginable thing must unfold: Dimitri Ka...dze, the main character of the short story, aka Trulaila, holds a funeral wake for his own “scoundrel”, even inviting his friends to a Kutaisi restaurant as participants in this phallic ritual.
 
Everything in this book is on the border of comedy and tragedy, on a tight-rope between tears and laughter. All of this is intensified however by the general backdrop of the era: It is April 13, 1988, the time one year before the Earth’s great empire – the Soviet Union must be destroyed.
 
A funeral wake requires a toast master and Trulaila (the victim and the bereaved as well) chooses a well-known prostitute in town, Lamarie, as the toast master, who has set not only the members of the feast, but who knows how many others, on the path of manhood in their own time. In the beginning this choice contains some self-irony, something inevitable as well, for which, as it turns out, neither Trulaila, nor his fellow guests are prepared.
 
Irakli Samsonadze’s A Funeral Wake in the Wind is one of the best Georgian short stories of all time, which you certainly must read and laugh yourself to tears, or vice-versa.
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