ISBN:

9789941312038

Category:

Modern Georgian Prose

Pages:

246

Format:

14X20.5

Cover:

Soft

Price:

12.95

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What is happening in “Vazha-Pshavela impasse N1”? Perhaps we wouldn’t be wrong to say that it is everything that is left beyond the pandemic nuances and that is much more interesting than some dry statistics about the spreading of the virus, its symptoms or its lethal nature.

 

Thanks to its bad luck, an ordinary eight-floor Khrushchyovka apartment building situated in Vazha-Pshavela impasse N1 finds itself in a unique exposure and becomes the center of attention of the whole country when it comes to be the first ever building to be isolated from the rest of the world due to the quarantine. A couple that could hardly be called a couple as it had been dealing with everyday existential problems and was about to split up like so many typical Tbilisi couples have done before and will do in future, now facing death starts to walk a thin line of paranoia and jumps head over heels into this intense adventure that is stipulated by the unusual, unexpectedly transformed environment. Corona-crisis perfectly merges with their personal crisis and leads it into a totally unpredictable direction.

 

The book is a sort of guide to the existential adventure of Tbilisi youth locked up into Khrushchyovka apartment buildings where you will come across all kinds of things starting from ketamine and techno music ending with the head of the state.