"Before announcing Vita Brevis" is Bakur Gabunia's first novel. This dystopian novel proposes its own rules to the reader and these rules are made by the characters of the book.
More than five main characters, constant shift of perspective, unbelievable stories, invented epoch, countries and cities, strange heroes and a travel of the character from another book which is described in this novel leads the reader into a labyrinth and they can only get out of it if they play by the rules they've been given.