Sulakauri publishing rights catalogue 2017 2018 by Floydian Mike

Sulakauri Publishing was founded in 1999 as a small independent publishing house, but after years of hard work it gained a well-deserved reputation and nowadays stands as the leading publisher in Georgia. The invariable priority for the publishing team is to provide valuable, high-quality, timeless and timely books for Georgian readers. Sulakauri publishing offers the widest range of publications, covering the interests of all age groups. Apart from providing high quality translations, Sulakauri publishing actively publishes contemporary Georgian literature. We seek and support new talents and keep publishing the most prominent authors, For acquiring rights, please contact Mr. Mikheil Tsikhelashvili michael@sulakauri.ge +995 32 91 09 54

Contemporary Georgian Fiction

New Voices

Modern Classics

Non-Fiction

Cookbooks

Illustrated Books

Contemporary Georgian Fiction

Aka Morchiladze Aka Morchiladze is a pen-name of Georgi Akhvlediani (born in 1966 in Tbilisi, Georgia), arguably the most outstanding Georgian author of literary fiction. He studied Georgian History at Tbilisi State University. His debut novel “Journey to Karabakh”, written in 1992, led to his success. The novel was sold and translated into several languages and later adapted into a feature film followed by two sequels. “Moondogs of Paliashvili Street” (1996) was another successful work that, three years after its publication, was adapted into a play and staged at Akhmeteli Theater. The play became one of the mostly attended theatrical performances in the history of Georgian theater. During the 1990s Morchiladze was also working as a sport columnist in the major sport newspaper Sarbieli. In 1998 Sulakauri Publishing became the exclusive publisher of Morchiladze’s works and since then published more than 25 of his novels, a collections of short stories and non-fiction titles. In 2005-2006, the author worked as a producer and presenter at Unknown Georgia - a fascinating TV documentary about Georgian history and literature.

Cupid at Klemlin Wall (Cupid Trilogy I) The Soviet Union, 1939, a retired secret policeman (a.k.a chekist) Mr. Retinger is arrested in Tbilisi. His wife, Mariam Eristavi decides to visit Joseph Stalin and convince him in the innocence of her husband. Mariam herself is revolutionist and the one who had always fought for women’s rights. In his early years Stalin was hiding at Mariam’s place and now the kindness must be paid back. Chaotic journey from Sochi to Moscow , fear, unexpected relations, awakened past and dangerous road lead Mariam to an unexpected end. “Cupid at Kremlin Wall” is the first book of forthcoming “Cupid Trilogy”.

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Contemporary Georgian Fiction

Aka Morchiladze

Journey to Karabakh “Journey to Karabakh” is one of the best-selling books in Georgia, given the fact that three feature films were made based on the novel. The book neither tells the story of a conflict between Azerbaijan and Armenia, nor represents a travel diary; it is narrated by a young Georgian man named George who accompanies his friend to Karabakh on a dangerous quest to procure cheap drugs. He is taken prisoner first by the Azeris and afterwards by the Armenians. But does the protagonist strive to really escape from his captivity? Experiencing constant pressure at home, from his family and relatives, the former prisoner of Georgian social order does not regret coming to the strange place, in the middle of a war, surrounded by armed forces. Since the end of the Georgian civil war para-military groups have ceaselessly roamed the streets of Tbilisi. For Number of Pages: 168

George there is nothing left to go back to, except his father who is on the brink of

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becoming a drunkard, and a pregnant girlfriend, who is rejected by his family due

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to her humble background.

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What is freedom after all? Can it be perceived as a process, as a feeling?

English (Dalkey Archive Press) German (Weidle Verlag) Ukrainian (Family Leisure Club) Arabic (Kotob Khan) Bulgarian (Arka Publishing) Italian (Del Vecchio Editore) Serbian (Dereta Publishing) Macedonian (Kostova Antolog) Albanian (Shkupi)

Or maybe as neither? Throughout the novel the question of freedom and captivity is the main concern of the young man who is, finally, able to escape. English translation available

Aka Morchiladze

obOlé

Irakli, a playwright living an urban routine in Tbilisi, suddenly receives a call from his hometown saying that his old house is in danger of collapsing and the roof needs to be urgently fixed. Descended from aristocratic ancestors within the region, Irakli has to face the burden of being famous among local villagers, his long-forgotten childhood memories and the history of his Llore. Between the city and village life, he travels and slowly regains some memory of the old heroic tales of his grandfathers. The story begins as something akin to a travel diary, but then something turns everything upside down: During his inspection of the damaged roof, Irakli discovers in the attic the long-forgotten Obolé – a beautifully crafted old flintlock gun; a gift from the King of Imereti to the Lord of Muri. Nobody knows Number of Pages: 260

when the gun was last fired. The presence of Obolé turns the novel into a

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contemporary Georgian Western fiction, where a pictorial past comes to life

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in the mind of a nostalgic man.

Rights sold Italian (Del Vecchio Editore) German (Mitteldeutscher Verlag)

The Best Georgian Novel of 2011 English Sample translation available

Contemporary Georgian Fiction

Aka Morchiladze

Santa Esperanza This literary masterpiece transports the reader into a world that is sometimes ironically amusing, sometimes slightly melancholic, but always fascinating – the imaginary Santa Esperanza Islands in the Black Sea where the Georgians, Genoese, Ottomans and British have left their mark. People who remained to live in these places developed their own traditions, laws and customs in order to cunningly defy the constant stream of conquerors who seek to overrun their beloved patch of earth. The plot of Santa Esperanza develops in a non-linear form and can be read in any order. The book is a traveler’s bag full of 36 notebooks and a map. The reading process resembles playing a card game and the novel itself becomes a literary game where one reads the notebooks in a random order. Number of Pages: 770 Number of Words: ~190,000

Sequel

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The Secret Keepers’s Belt At the court of the kings of Santa Esperanza there had since time immemorial been a secret keeper. He wore a belt in the secret

The Best Georgian Novel of 2004

pockets of where the king’s documents and letters were kept safe. However, the belt of the last secret keeper contained not

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papers but costly jewels that had allegedly been stolen from

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Georgia. The belt is kept in a monastery on Santa Esperanza from

German (Mitteldeutscher Verlag) Turkish (Alfa Kitap)

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where, one summer, it is stolen. But the thieves fail in their attempt Rights sold

German translation available

to take the belt out of the country.

Turkish (Alfa Kitap)

Aka Morchiladze

Georgian Notebooks 15 chapters with a graphic account of the 19th-century Tbilisi, the place and period which Morchiladze revels in knowing it inside out and indeed in which he would live if he had a choice. It is a colorful time; time when the first opera house is being built, Shakespeare is being translated; the first Georgian-language newspapers are being published. The book ends with the Red Army’s invasion of Georgia, the surrender of Tbilisi and the uprising. This is not a factual narrative with dates and sources: the author chats to us, using association and telling us about what seems noteworthy and important to him and what has left an impression on him because ultimately nothing is important unless it leaves a trace forever in our hearts. Number of Pages: 214 Number of Words: ~40,000 Dimensions: 145 X 210

Sequel

The Shadow on the Road The writer is describing the Soviet period in Georgia, beginning with the Stalin’s times and ending with the 1990s. He surveys the period in a very interesting way, decade by decade, examining the changes that occurred. The reader is given a vivid picture of a whole epoch, with its past lived in the shadows and with many unknown stories and events ‘that went on beyond the shadows’.

Number of Pages: 222 Number of Words: ~45,000 Dimensions: 135 X 195

Rights sold German (Mitteldeutscher Verlag)

Contemporary Georgian Fiction

Aka Morchiladze

The Madatov Trilogy A trilogy describing Georgia from 1890 to the 1930s. The action takes place in Tbilisi of 1899. The Caucasian gendarmerie is hunting the murderer of a homosexual painter who is suspected of having close ties with the Georgian establishment. The novel demonstrates the distinguished literary talent of the author: his refined ability to create remarkable characters and to bring to life the scenes of the past century. Among the characters, the reader encounters several historical figures such as the Norwegian writer Knut Hamsun, who visited Tbilisi at the end of the 19th century, and a well-known Georgian writer Ilia Chavchavadze. The author applies an interesting literary method by bringing in heroes from other contemporary Georgian novels. THE FLIGHT OVER MADATOV ISLAND was soon followed by a new novel TO Number of Pages: 504

DISAPPEAR ON MADATOV ISLAND, in which the action takes place ten years later.

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In the last book of the trilogy, THE WHALE ON MADATOV ISLAND, the action takes

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place twenty years after the first novel.

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THE MADATOV TRILOGY gives an overview of the whole epoch from 1899 to 1929 -

Azerbaijanian (Alatoran)

the most crucial period in Georgia’s history. English translation available

Aka Morchiladze

Maid in Tiflis

The novel tells a story of two lost friends Leviko and Mogela. Mogela lives in the old part of Tbilisi, together with his mother in an old house full of books collected by his late bibliophile grandfather. Despite being an owner of a great library, Mogela never reads the books, spending most of his time smoking marijuana and dreaming. Leviko lives in the most prestigious district of Tbilisi, often borrows books from Mogela’s grandfather’s rich collection and reads a lot. One day Mogela leaves for Netherlands and returns only after 2 years. He finds out that his friend Leviko has died under very strange circumstances; He also gets to know that just before his death Leviko returned the book from Mogela’s grandfather’s collection he borrowed a few years ago. Mogela takes the book and finds telephone numbers written on the title page. He remembers that 2 years Number of Pages: 476 Number of Words: ~90,000 Dimensions: 135 X 195

ago, when he was leaving for Netherlands Leviko told him half seriously, half in jest: “I will die before you return, so I will leave a telephone number of one of my exes. Call her and tell her that I’m dead. She’ll come to cry on my grave. That’s all…” Mogela decides to call, but there are 5 different telephone numbers of 5 different women living in 5 different cities of the former Soviet Union. All of them arrive to Tbilisi on different days to cry on the grave of Leviko; each of them telling different stories about their love affairs with Leviko.

The Best Georgian Novel of 2007

German sample translation available

Contemporary Georgian Fiction

Aka Morchiladze

Of Old Hearts and Sword Truly a masterpiece of a short novel evoking the delicate aroma and atmosphere of Georgia in the early 19th century. The novel narrates the story of a young Georgian man who, as a victim of a certain misunderstanding, echoed through the state of Georgia being colonized by the Russian Empire in the 19th century. A young Georgian nobleman Baduna Pavneli, who has killed a Russian officer, returns home to find his deaf and dumb brother Tedia missing - having left some days before. Baduna travels from Tiflis (Tbilisi) to the West searching for his brother while the Russian police pursue him across the country. Number of Pages: 150 Number of Words: ~22,000 Dimensions: 135 X 195

Baduna resembles a classical tragic hero, risking everything without knowing what awaits him at the end. Baduna finishes his journey at the Black Sea.

Rights sold Swedish (2244, Bonnier)

Aka Morchiladze

The Shy Emerald For centuries, Kings, Atabegs and Emirs governed Georgia, but never Emperors. In this novel, Emperor Vakhtang VII rules Georgia alongside a black British Empress Kathryn Barkley, who symbolizes something exotic to the Georgians. The Emperor decides to change the names of Georgian cities to demonstrate to the people that he has total control. However, his power is in fact dwindling both throughout Georgia as well as due to his own excesses. This sparks an uprising that spreads across the whole country. In a parallel storyline, Prince Margalite Abashidze tries to organize a coup against the Emperor to dethrone him. His ally, Priest Porfile, becomes the leader of an army by manipulating soldiers with religion. The Emperor senses the start of an uprising, tries to Number of Pages: 360 Number of Words: ~95,000

quell strikes and capture Abashidze before it is too late.

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Aka Morchiladze

Mameluke

When the Soviet Union collapsed together with the entire system, young Beso starts a friendship with Islam Sultanov, the last Khan of a tiny country in the Far East. After a while Islam returns to reclaim his country and years pass without any information about him. One day Beso is told that in his will Islam named him as his sole heir. Beso leaves his family and sets off to get “his country” back. Just like a Mameluke he goes away to get someone else’s homeland back, hoping one day he’ll regain his own country. The short novel impressively describes the transition from communism through a remarkable friendship between two men. Number of Pages: 132 Number of Words: ~18,000

English translation available

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Rights sold German (Mitteldeutcher Verlag)

The Best Georgian Novel of 2009

Contemporary Georgian Fiction

Ekaterine Togonidze Ekaterine Togonidze (b. 1981) graduated from Tbilisi State University, Faculty of Journalism. She was a news program anchor for seven years and later a morning program presenter of the Georgian Public Broadcasting. During these years she worked as a columnist for several Georgian newspapers and magazines. Currently, Ekaterine is a trainer in PR school certificate courses. Besides writing and teaching, she video-blogs for various media channels and works as Marketing and PR manager in the Georgian-American University. Togonidze is involved in projects of social responsibility and cooperates with several NGOs protecting rights of people with disabilities. She writes blogs, essays and fiction about this topic.

Asynchrony American conjoined twins are the archetypes of the main characters: Lina and Diana, who are isolated from society by their grandmother being told that there is nothing for them beyond their confines. The twins are ashamed of their body and both of them endlessly question the reason they were born. But the answer remains hidden and they are even unable to decide whether they are two people or just one. Or should that be one-and-a half? In a parallel storyline, Professor Rostom Morchiladze is asked by the mortuary to come and identify a body. He thinks that there has been a mistake because he didn’t even know that he had children – the mother of the twins died after giving birth and hadn’t told him anything of her pregnancy. After their grandmother’s death there is a danger of the girls Number of Pages: 160

dying of hunger as a result of their isolation. But soon a flood destroys their house and Lina

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and Diana become the unwilling “stars” of the TV news as the only survivors of the natural

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Rights sold

catastrophe.

German by Septime Verlag

T-H-E O-T-H-E-R W-A-Y Instead of letters, sculptor Alexander sees black worms, newly born snakes but never catches their meaning. He is not familiar with the Braille Alphabet either. Everything is chaotic for him, so he chooses the other way. One day Nia, a young journalist visits him to record an interview but the process leads the couple to a fatal accident. “T-h-e O-t-h-e-r W-a-y” was first published in 2011 as a short story and was awarded with SABA and BSP awards. Later Ekaterine Togonidze developed it as a novel. gERMAN translation of the short story available

Number of Pages: 116 Number of Words: ~11,000 Dimensions: 110 X 170

Contemporary Georgian Fiction

Archil Kikodze The Southern Elephant Archil Kikodze, acclaimed Georgian writer and photographer was born in 1972, Tbilisi, Georgia. In 1992 he graduated from Tbilisi State University, Faculty of Oriental Studies. Later he also learned the profession of cameraman and screenwriter at Tbilisi State Institute of Theatre and Cinema. Apart from photographing and writing, during his lifetime Kikodze worked as a teacher, rescuer, editor, tour guide, researcher, etc. He also showed up in a supporting role in one of the most succesful and valuable Georgian movies “Blind Dates”. In his writings Kikodze perfectly demonstrates the visible and inner beauties and scars of Georgian society and relationships. Dialogues between generations, traveling, chasing for unanswered questions and many others are the subjects of his literature. His smart writing language makes readers read the stories without skipping or pausing.

The Southern Elephant is one of the best Georgian novels of the 21st century. It has two main characters, the narrator and his friend Tazo, both victims of school bullying in their early years. They dreamt about becoming movie directors but their lives took a wrong turn: After not taking action to save a child, Tazo became a victim of his conscience and turned into an introvert who hasn’t left home for quite long. Meanwhile, the narrator directed one very successful film, but after a fatal accident while shooting another movie, he gave up directing. The whole novel happens in one day: Tazo asks the narrator to allow him to stay at his apartment with his new crush and the narrator leaves home. Without any purpose he walks in the streets of Tbilisi and starts reflecting on his whole life. He tries to watch every moment in his life from a different angle. So the novel transforms from the history of one man to the history of the independent Georgia. This is the novel about moral dilemmas and how to stay and survive as human - yet it doesn’t advise. In the last pages Kikodze performs an “ugly” version of a happy-end and that makes the whole novel candid and sincere. Rights sold German (Ullstein Buchverlage) Azerbaijanian (Qanun Publishing) Bulgarian (Agata-A Press)

English and German language sample translations available.

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Winner of: LITERA AWARD 2017 “For a complete and delicate analysis of historical and social traumas, failed relationships and unrealizable goals accumulated in Georgia.”

ILIAUNI literary award 2017“For brilliant illustration of the survival of personal values, wishes and perceptions while the life around you roughly changes.”

Shortlisted for Saba Award 2017

ARCHIL KIKODZE

THE SOUTHERN ELEPHANT Reviews: “the novel our city was waiting for so long.” © Levan Berdzenishvili, philologist

“In contemporary Georgian fiction “The Southern Elephant” manages to catch “Zeitgeist” as perfect as no other novel can.”

#1 Georgian Bestseller in 2017

“That’s it! That’s “The Southern Elephant” – the story of the generation that faced a terrible monster in a dead-end.” © Ana Kordzaia-Samadashvili, writer

“phenomenally interesting text. Kikodze wrote subtle and suggestive novel which seems to be incomparable in contemporary Georgian literature.” © Nikoloz Agladze, literary critic

Appeared in Top Ten 7 times. 2 times as #1

The truth matters What we are saying in the house Mikheil Tsikhelashvili (Rights Manager) The Southern Elephant is a wise, thrilling and timeless novel with vivid characters that will live long in your mind. It’s written in the traditions of Georgian novel and I still ask myself if this is the full stop of classic language Georgian prose. Kikodze closed one big chapter of our literature and opened a new one. What’s more I’ve never read such an analyzer of our history.

Tina Mamulashvili (Managing Director) I have started to read thsi novel in pieces, because the author was delivering the manuscript in episodes. Each separate episode was a small masterpiece, but so diverse, that I wondered whether they all are parts of the same novel. When I read the final episode, I met to Archil to ask him whether he knew how to assemble this jigsaw puzzle and he said had already found a glue. I admit, he did it amazingly well.

Nata Zhvania (Head of Marketing) Each and every character of “The Southern Elephant” is very familiar. Those are people we meet every day, greet and smile to them but we forget that beyond them are the stories our country is based on.

Contemporary Georgian Fiction

Lasha Bugadze Lasha Bugadze was born in 1977 in Tbilisi, Georgia. Since his debut appearance in 1998 Sulakauri has been the exclusive publisher of his works. A scandalous time for Bugadze occurred in 2002 when his short story “The First Russian” was published in periodic press and the text became the subject of debates in the Parliament. The banning of the short story was considered which could activate censorship in independent Georgia. A wave of threats flowed from both church and society. Religious leaders called Bugadze to the residence of the Georgian Patriarch and told him that he would be excommunicated from the Georgian Orthodox Church and rejected by a number of people if he did not apologize publically for his work. This story was described in his latest novel “The Little Country”. The incident greatly defines the themes of Bugadze’s works. Despite writing about censorship and the flaws of Georgian mentality, Bugadze maintains humor within the tragedy. Censorship was also the main theme of his radio programme “Dialogue on Censorship”. Apart from novels and short stories, his plays achieved huge success in Europe. His 2011 play “The Navigator” was announced as the best radio-play of the year and won the first prize at BBC Radio-play contest. Bugadze also became the laureate of the most prestigious literary award in Georgia – SABA four times from twelve nominations in various years.

The Little Country Based on a true story, the novel is narrated by the author-protagonist, whose short story was demanded to be banned by the parliament in 2002 and who was almost excommunicated by the Orthodox Church of Georgia. At the turn of the new century the country is headed by the aging Eduard Shevardnadze, the former Foreign Minister of the USSR and now the President of independent Georgia. The main demand is to change the government, which entails total changes – in a way the change of government is assumed to carry the power to change destiny itself. The author-protagonist publishes a story in a literary magazine of modest circulation. The satirical story is about the legendary queen Tamar of the 13th century, or rather about her unfortunate marriage to Yuri, the Russian prince, who demonstrated inappropriate habits at their wedding night, absolutely unfit for a royal descendant. Several months later, some MPs demanded that the author should be punished, insisting on introduction of censorship. In their opinion, the young author had insulted the national history and stained the name of the most revered queen. If in the beginning the scandal seemed somewhat entertaining for the 23-year old author, his girlfriend and friends, later on it became rather tedious, even oppressive. Politicians and media got actively involved in the scandal, using it to manipulate with the public opinion applying various methods at their disposal. Rights sold German (Frankfurter Verlagsanstalt)

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2017

Contemporary Georgian Fiction

Lasha Bugadze

The Literature Express A literary association has invited unknown and mediocre writers of various nationalities to a seminar. The narrative of the novel follows the train as it travels through Europe. The novel describes the self-absorption of the authors and their inability to communicate with each other. They are portrayed as inward looking and disinterested in their fellow travelers’ works. The novel speculates on the subject of literature and unsuccessful writing. The main character of the story is a Georgian author. At the heart of the novel is a love story between the Georgian author and his Polish translator’s wife. However, their romance is as unsuccessful as the protagonist’s attempts at literary success. At the end of the fascinating journey through Europe we discover that all the authors participating in the seminar are writing their new Number of Pages: 248

books on the Literature Express.

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The Literature Express is about literature and writers, but also subtly reflects the

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tragedy of a Georgian man who cannot integrate into the European society

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because of his mentality.

English (Dalkey Archive Press) German (Frankfurter Verlagsanstalt) Greek(Koukounari) Arabic (Kotob Khan) Macedonian (Prozart) Albanian (Fan Noli)

English And German translations available

“The Turbulent Novel” Neue Zürcher Zeitung

Lasha Bugadze

Lucrecia515 “There is no sex in the Soviet Union” – the phrase became extremely popular in the USSR after a young woman said it during the US-USSR TV bridge show. Sex was a “closed” issue, and the attitude has been adopted in the Post-Soviet period with inertia. The protagonist of the novel is Sandro, a representative of the 1990s generation. He is a married Don Juan who puts a lot of effort and enthusiasm into compensating for years devoid of sex. He very much resembles Leporello’s Don Giovanni in that he keeps a list of women with a description of their socio-psychological traits. He has divided women as those who want to get married, those who are fatally stubborn, who prefer to live in the past, those who fail to build their career and those who fall under the category of easy-to-get. Sandro’s problems start when Anna appears in his life. She is somewhat similar to Number of Pages: 246

him, an aggressive and ambivalent character; his double, in a sense. In her words,

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in the beginning she treats their affair light-heartedly, but with time she finds herself

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deeply involved in the neurotic routine of their relationship.

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When Sandro’s wife doubts his fidelity, she hacks her husband’s private email

German (Frankfurter Verlagsanstalt)

and discovers her archenemy Anna and starts a correspondence with her in

German translation available

Sandro’s name.

“Ruthless and selfless, satirical and very funny: Bugadze has talent for humorous and a sense of the absurd.“ Der Tagesspiegel

Contemporary Georgian Fiction

Zaza Burchuladze Zaza Burchuladze (b.1973) is a contemporary postmodernist writer and dramatist who graduated from Tbilisi State Academy of Fine Arts. He started writing and publishing his books at the age of 24. His short stories were regularly published in Georgian Literary and Art magazines. Until 2001, he published his works under the pen-name of Gregor Zamza. Burchuladze translated numerous Russian contemporary and classical fiction including works of Fyodor Dostoyevsky and Vladimir Sorokin. He also was a columnist in the Georgian Playboy Magazine. In his homeland he is well known not only for his scandalous novels, but also as a very talented actor who starred in a Georgian feature movie in 2008. In 2011 he was invited to the Literary Colloquium Berlin as a participant. Currently he lives and works in Berlin.

adibas War is waging in Georgia. The Russian fighter planes are thundering over Tbilisi. The vibrations from the Russian combat helicopters over the Vere Park are no more than the rattling of a spoon in a Cappuccino cup. People are dying in the war, atrocities are being committed, yet in Tbilisi there is no longer any difference between the real and the fake. ADIBAS with two main characters – war and sex – is a drastic satire of urban Bohemia in a globalized world. “Fuck me to fake me” is the message of the story. Even though the novel is set in Tbilisi in August 2008 during the Russian-Georgian conflict and the war is nowhere and yet everywhere, there is not a single combat scene in Adibas.

Rights sold German (Aufbau Verlag) English (Dalkey Archive Press) Czech (Dobrovsky) Russian (Ad Marginem) Polish (Claroscuro) Macedonian (Kostova Antolog) Italian (Odoya)

“A Great, high-speed novel”

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Rolling Stones

“Outstanding! This book is tactless, vulgar, impudent, and at the same time intelligent.” Rezensöhnchen

English, Russian and German translations available.

Contemporary Georgian Fiction

Zaza Burchuladze

The Tourist Breakfast Tourist Breakfast is the latest novel by Zaza Burchuladze, an acclaimed and scandalous Georgian writer. In this novel which has a concept design (with its moleskin cover material and Borjgali symbol, it looks like a post-soviet Georgian passport), Burchuladze talks from the point of view of an immigrant who still has a strong connection with his “horrifying” homeland but feels emotionally very distant to it. The author himself is the main character of the book with his daughter Alice-Chihiro, who carries dead pigeons in Berlin streets and throws them into the trash bins. Tourist Breakfast is a text free from experiments we were used to in Burchuladze’s other books. It reads like Number of Pages: 198 Number of Words: ~25,000 Dimensions: 110 X 170

non-fiction but one cannot really define whether the story is real or invented.

“One of the most interesting contemporary authors.“

Rights sold

The Tagesspiegel

German (Aufbau Verlag)

Zaza Burchuladze

Infleteble Angel At exactly the same time as the eruption of Iceland’s Eyjafjallajökull volcano filled Europe’s skies with ash causing airlines to cancel flights, a young married couple, Niko and his wife Nino, are holding a spiritualist seance in a small apartment in Tbilisi. Their aim is to call up the spirit of George Gurdjieff who eventually appears not only in spirit, but in flesh and blood. And because he simply will not go away again, Niko and Nino ask their Gurdjieff to help them in procuring funds. And so Gurdjieff uses all the means available to a resurrected esoteric: kidnapping, blackmail, hypnosis, metamorphosis, miracle cures. Thanks to their miraculous godsend, the couple move into their newly acquired Number of Pages: 208 Number of Words: ~30,000

apartment and open a bakery with a cafe, while all around them fantastic occurrences are taking place.

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Rights sold French (L’age d’Homme) Russian (Ad Marginem)

French And Russian translations available

The Best Georgian Novel of 2011

Zaza Burchuladze

Instant Kafka The collection unites six the loudest and the most acknowledged stories written by Zaza Burchuladze in the first ten years of his writing career. Short novels like “The Simpsons” and “The Letter to the Mom” and the short stories “Instant Kafka”, “Passive Attack”, “The Dubbing” and “Seven Wise Men” ensured fame and scandalous reputation to the author. The stories were translated and selected for numerous anthologies in several languages. Russian translation available TExts in English and Swedish Available Number of Pages: 300 Number of Words: ~55,000 Dimensions: 145 X 215

Rights sold Russian (Ad Marginem Press)

Contemporary Georgian Fiction

Dato Turashvili Flight from the USSR Dato Turashvili was born on 10 May, 1966 in Tbilisi, Georgia. He studied literature, film, and art history and film dramaturgy at universities in Tbilisi, London and Madrid. In his student years Turashvili was the main insurgent and leader of the nonconformist student group which later played a huge role in Georgian history when the country became independent. In those years Turashvili was one of the central figures in Georgia’s Youth Movement. In his book “Once Upon a Time” he beautifully describes the epoch when Georgia faced the responsibility of maintaining independence and freedom. His most successful novel “Flight from the USSR” (a.k.a. The Jeans Generation) remains the best-selling title in Georgia. “Flight from the USSR” was adapted into a play and staged in the Free Theatre of Georgia. The theatrical play also became one of the mostly attended and bestselling performances of the 21st century in Georgia. Turashvili’s works are translated into more than 20 languages and rights of his novel “Flight from the USSR” has been sold to 15 countries. Apart from writing, he travels a lot and is an amateur mountain-climber. Currently, he is working as a TV presenter and reviews and presents new books. He lives and works in Tbilisi.

The novel is the ultimate bestseller in Georgia and is based on one of the most tragic events of the 1980s in which seven young people hijacked an airplane in an attempt to escape from the Soviet Union. It was a reckless move at a time when even the thought of escape was punishable. The Soviet government sentenced most of the participants to death. Public reaction was divided. Some people considered the young rebels no better than terrorists while others supported them, considering the flaws of the Soviet life. Flight from the USSR allows the reader to closely follow the leading characters, and learn more about their motives and aspirations. For this group of young people who dreamt of an escape, jeans symbolize the free world. The novel has been adapted to the stage and is one of the most successful plays of the Georgian Free Theatre. Rights sold German (Klaus Wagenbach Verlag) English (Mosaic Press) Russian (Family Leisure Club) Ukrainian (Family Leisure Club) Italian (Palombi Editore) Dutch (Cosse) Greek (A.PAPASOTIRIOU & Co) Armenian (Antares) Azerbaijanian (Alatoran) Croatian (andorf) Arabic (Kotob Khan) Albanian (Fan Noli) Serbian (Agora) Macedonian (Kostova Antolog) Czech (Vetrne Mlyny)

English and German language translations available.

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The Mostly Read contemporary Georgian book More than 40,000 Copies sold

Dato Turashvili

Flight from the USSR â&#x20AC;&#x153;The ideology of Moscow fought with special devotion against all values and symbols of the United States, including jeans. Therefore, Soviet citizens considered that where there were jeans, there was happiness. In a country where jeans are not produced, there also exists no right to private property: one of the fundamentals of independence.â&#x20AC;? Dato Turashvili

#1 Georgian Bestseller in 21st century Georgia

Appeared in Top Ten more than 100 times.

Contemporary Georgian Fiction

Dato Turashvili

Sunken City If you dive into the river Mtkvari, sunken streets might hypnotize you and you can easily get lost in the city which still lives in the 19th century. Here you also meet an Irish poet Patrick Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Lear who landed here with his flying carpet and fall deeply in love with the city. He declared Georgia as his second homeland thanks to the fact that he found real friends and love of the life. But the epoch of changes was preparing a new and dangerous destiny to everyone he came across in his life with; the destiny of the passengers of the Titanic, including Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Lear.

Number of Pages: 202 Number of Words: ~35,000 Dimensions: 135 X 195

Dato Turashvili

Another Amsterdam In his latest novel of Turashvili tells a story of how he went in Netherlands to explore the story of his grandfather, a Soviet soldier Melenti Maskhulia who fought alongside guerillas against the Nazi regime. After returning to his homeland Maskhulia was announced as a deserter and the Soviet government sent him to Siberia, sentenced imprisonment for ten years. But this is the story narrated by his daughter, while his widow thinks that the only reason Maskhulia was in the Netherlands was his lover and that he had not fought against the Nazi regime for even a day.

Number of Pages: 308 Number of Words: ~55,000 Dimensions: 135 X 195

Rights sold Armenian (Antares)

Dato Turashvili

Once Upon a Time Once Upon a Time is a story about the Georgian preparation for independence from the Soviet Union, narrated by a student who took part in it. The narrative style is very personal, filled with irony and nostalgia. Everything in this book is a history that actually happened, yet it seems like fiction. In Georgia from 1987-1991, life itself was akin to a romantic book with the scent of revolution in the air. No historian could tell those old stories in a way that Turashvili does in that we meet ordinary people and read stories which create the full image of that age and atmosphere. This is why readers can see things as if they were while the history was in the making. Once Upon a Time is a great book about freedom, independence, war and Number of Pages: 156 Number of Words: ~24,000 Dimensions: 135 X 195

student life, but it also touches upon envy, contradiction and indolence â&#x20AC;&#x201C; traits that were grotesquely displayed in Georgian society as soon as it gained its independence. English sample translation available

Contemporary Georgian Fiction

Zurab Lejava Zurab Lezhava’s prose is easily distinguishable from other Georgian writers’ works. Foreign editors and publishers compared his literature to the filmography of Emir Kusturica. His literary works are a mix of reality and phantasmagoria, where the reader can discover the dark sides of a human. Poverty, immorality, greed, intolerance, envy, etc. that humans bear in their lives are the reasons Lezhava’s characters behave the way they do. He is also familiar with prison stories due to the fact he was captured during the Soviet era and was imprisoned for 16 years. Currently he lives and works in Tbilisi. Apart from writing, Lezhava is a woodcarver and sells his own statues at the Tbilisi Dry Bridge open market, the largest such market in Georgia.

Sex for Fridge Short stories written by Zurab Lezhava are illustrations of the dark sides of human beings. In them people do illogical and inadequate things. In these stories you meet the dance teacher who breaks into a neighbor’s house to have a better bath, a poor man who needs money and sets out to sell his old fridge but discovers that sex with the ugliest woman on earth is a more acceptable price for him. Georgian readers and critics often remark that such prose had never been written in Georgia before. The Best Georgian Book of 2010

Rights sold

English, German and Russian translations available

German (Edition Monhardt)

Number of Pages: 250 Number of Words: ~45,000 Dimensions: 135 X 195

Zaza Tvaradze Zaza Tvaradze (1957-2007) writer and poet, studied psychology at Tbilisi State University. From 1980 he worked as editorial director of a number of literary magazines and was a member of the Georgian Pen Club. His verses and short stories have been translated into English, French, German and Russian.

Words Critics claim Words as one of the most important examples of Georgian post-modernism, in which the existence of ordinary people in Georgia over the last decades is portrayed to perfection. Two friends, Zaza (a psychology student) and Levan (working in the theatre as a literary consultant and studying at the directing faculty) establish an “office of bliss” where the “bliss experts” can provide everything that gives utter bliss. Their third friend, Guja, chooses a fairly traditional form of bliss, a beautiful young girl. But the main hero of the work, to everyone’s surprise, doesn’t choose any drug or other intoxicating (bliss-giving) substance: he chooses a jewel casket which contains living words. Levan reacts to these words with childish fear, in case they escape from the casket. But for Levan and Zaza, from now on, every word takes on a face, a smell, a body. German sample translation available

Number of Pages: 280 Number of Words: ~57,000 Dimensions: 145 X 215

Contemporary Georgian Fiction

Ana Kordzaia-Samadashvili Ana Kordzaia-Samadashvili, an acclaimed Georgian writer and translator, was born in 1968. After graduating from Tbilisi State University, faculty of Russian Philology, she became a lecturer herself. Now she delivers lectures in literary criticism, the 19th and 20th century Russian literature, and leads a Creative Writing course at Ilia State University, Tbilisi. Her short stories, articles and essays have been published in various literary magazines. Ana’s literary debut took place in 2002 when she published a short story collection “Berikaoba”. In 2011 Anna published her first novel “The Children of Nightfall” which tells us about the hardly noticeable people living next to us. Her second novel “Who Murdered Chaika” was named as the Best Novel of the Year. Critics say that Anna has her own narrative style in Georgian literature. Her stories may sometimes seem complicated but they are always connected to people and their emotions. Anna collaborates with and writes for several non-governmental organizations. Her stories were presented in the Leipzig Book Fair “Reading Program”. Together with writing, she also translates from the German language, having translated the works of such globally renowned authors as Erich Maria Remarque, Elfriede Jelinek, Cornelia Funke and Herta Muller.

Who Murdered Chaika Elizabeth is a single yet happy woman who does no harm to anybody. She is surrounded by plenty of friends who belong to different minority groups. Friends somehow love each other but one definitely notices that they have nothing in common. Elizabeth loves life and wants to dance, travel and just be happy. She is a person with a free soul who enjoys breaking stereotypes. “Chaika” is the name for this kind of woman. But suddenly Chaika’s dreams are cut short. She is murdered and her body is found by a small child. The murder awakes the whole district where everybody knows everything except the detective who is investigating the case of the apparent revengeful killing. Who was Chaika? Who murdered her? Chaika’s friends have a clue about the murderer but choose to be silent. Two of those friends decide to get revenge for the deceased Elizabeth themselves. This is a very complicated and intriguing story narrated in a clever and catchy way. Rights sold German (Hans Schiler Verlag)

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“Attractive image of Tiflis and The Best Georgian Novel of 2013

German translations available.

its inhabitants” Frankfurter AllgemeineKirkus

Contemporary Georgian Fiction

Ana Kordzaia-Samadashvili

Me, Margarita

The collection of short stories, where author possesses such dexterity of the tone and structure that the book’s 22 tales feel like raunchy, visceral oral history cloaked in an array of fictional forms. The collection begins with the long, title story about generations of women looking back at personal and national history, giving birth, grieving husbands who disappeared during wartime, by turns angry or in awe of fate. The story’s breadth frames the range of women’s voices that follow. They live in mostly urban places, usually Tblisi, in vague yet hard circumstances, surviving bad relationships, raising children with little support. English and German translations available

Number of Pages: 184 Number of Words: ~35,000 Dimensions: 135 X 195

Rights sold English (Dalkey Archive Press) German (Hans Schiler Verlag) Macedonian (Prozart)

“Challenging, contemporary short stories with sharp feminist commentary”

Kirkus

Ana Kordzaia-Samadashvili

The Children of Nightfall The Children of Nightfall is a love story – not a romantic one but a story about existential loneliness and the fear of never finding love at all. The protagonists are bohemians who have never abandoned their dreams. They may have stopped believing in love, but they still love and are still searching. Martha and Niko are bound by a special love, even if – because Niko has been living abroad for eight years – they only see each other occasionally. Both are now middle-aged, and both have wounded souls. Martha has a penchant for excess; she tends to exaggerate and talks long and loudly, not only in her sleep. She and Niko engage in verbal sparring matches when he is there and the two of them go out walking with Martha’s dog Almasa, who also has his say from time to time in the book. Niko, sarcastic and quarrelsome, is looking for amorous new adventures Number of Pages: 120 Number of Words: ~15,000 Dimensions: 110 X 170

in the West. Martha, at home, wants only Niko. English translation available

Rights sold Italian (Edizioni Clandestine)

Contemporary Georgian Fiction

Jaba Zarkua Jaba Zarkua was born in 1988, Tbilisi, Georgia. He has degree in medicine and currently works as a gastroenterologist. He is actively involved in daily practice of managing and treating patients with various liver disorders. Zarkua presents himself first of all as a doctor and that’s why medicine plays a big role in his writings. His first book “Paradox of Warmstadt” was published by Sulakauri Publishing in 2011. This collection of short stories defined his late writings, including two novels, “The Reader Must Die” and “In the End was the Word”. Absurd, dystopian and sullen world is the playground for Zarkua’s novels where the author puts unequivocal statements under question.

In the End Was the Word Year 2116, Damien Tsitsishvili, a founder of a new religion based on scientific premises is sentenced to death but his last wish to visit his father Zaza is approved by the state. Damien travels into space to meet this man for the first and the last time ever. In his story we are introduced to a new era where peace became the most valuable item on market. While the new messiah is waiting to die his father shall keep all the words he’s been told.

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Jaba Zarkua’s latest novel is written as a long dialogue and it makes a smooth reading, without any pause or skipping.

Number of Pages: 120 Number of Words: ~21,000 Dimensions: 135 X 195

The Reader Must Die At the start of the year 2200 the world is split in two: it consists of a large Fascist empire and various tiny states, including Warmstadt (‘warm town”, which is the literal meaning of Tbilisi). In both the great empire and post-revolutionary Warmstadt the people are fed nationalist propaganda. The regimes are also similar in nature, but they differ in one respect: the government of Warmstadt is unique among the world’s dictatorial regimes in that it attempts to make people compliant with the help of books and has in fact succeeded in turning its subjects into educated slaves and servants of the state. Everything seems to be going well and the empire is in no hurry to annex Warmstadt. But it is the calm before the storm, because one of the empire’s best scientists is working on a perfidious plan of a controlled revolution, which is due to be put into practice in Warmstadt. If the Number of Pages: 168

experiment succeeds, the concept of the free, rebellious man will be consigned to history.

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German sample translation available

The Best Georgian Novel of 2012

Contemporary Georgian Fiction

Diana Anphimiadi Born in 1982, Diana is a poet, publicist, linguist, editor and translator. Currently she is a doctoral student at the Linguistic Institute of Tbilisi State University. Anphimiadi is the author of a number of scholarly articles and publications and is the holder of Ilia Chavchavadze scholarship for young researchers. Diana Anphimiadi has published five collections of poetry, two prose and one children’s book. Anphimiadi researches Georgian gastronomy, gastro-linguistic, culinary and its links with ethnography. She also works in educational field and is the author of numerous articles about inclusive education. Her literary works are translated into ten languages. Anphimiadi was awarded several literary awards including SABA.

Personal Culinary “Culinary Prose or Literature Culinary? When I was thinking of the title for my new book, a thousand literary terms came into my mind and finally, I rejected all of them, because this is a book about personal culinary” – says the author and offers to her reader

“Exceptionally sensual and exotic”

a book of personal memories, events and people remembered

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through tastes, smells, colours and senses. The reader can meet with some real personalities, literature characters and well know people, who only passed briefly in the author’s life but have left an odd taste for a long time. All these memories and events are twisted in culinary and with each dish recipe is unfolded either a personal story of the author, or a story of her generation, or a story from yesterday’s Georgia. Through the culinary the author with her extraordinary humor and writing style brings a perfect smell and taste which might be familiar not only for Georgians but for everybody because after all this is a book about life, humans and love recipes. Rights sold German (Wieser Verlag)

Page-Count: 152 Word-count ~15,000 Dimensions 135 x 195

German translation available

Contemporary Georgian Fiction

Mari Bekauri Mari Bekauri (b.1990) did her MA in psychology but soon after became a literary critic, journalist and screenwriter. She experienced civil war in her early ages which is reflected in her literature. Since 2014 Bekauri participates in international literary project “We-Women Project” which is designed to encourage women’s role in the world.

Anna’s Moment 32-year old writer Anna Nakashidze suddenly loses her personal memory. It seems that the reason of amnesia was alienation. During the treatment Anna starts talking about dead children and everyone thinks that she was the victim of sexual abuse in her early ages. Meanwhile the court accuses the psychotherapist of an illegal experiment and before clearing anything Anna disappears. At the same time terrorists attack the leading TV broadcaster in the UK. The media finds Ana Nakashidze guilty in the terrorism which leaves no victim but is done only to attract attention. Suddenly Anna starts to talk about four-year-long struggle to communicate with the UK broadcaster to stream the video where the crime of Russian officers is visible. They now live in the UK and the state can take them to court. Number of Pages: 212

Short after this event a teenage hacker uploads the video on Youtube and millions of

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viewers go on the strike. People want to know the truth.

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But only one English therapist understands what is really happening. English Sample translation available

Grandma, Ray and America What do you leave your husband, home, your parents, your country for? What is that feeling when you definitely have to leave and see everything that a very faraway, surreal country has to offer? How much of a risk can a young girl take just to see what her favorite music used to tell her about? Is it worth it? Can you survive all alone in a huge, foreign land? Can you forget everything you were taught in childhood? Would you want to forget everything? And which is stronger: the roots your homeland gives you, the wings of exploring, or the whiskey you drank in the bar? Mariam Bekauri’s debut novel GRANDMA, RAY AND AMERICA speaks about the biggest dilemma of a generation: analyzing, experiencing and surviving though ideals, Number of Pages: 124

expectations and most importantly, traditions which are so hard to abandon.

Number of Words: ~13,000 Dimensions: 110 X 170

German Sample translation available

New Voices

Zura Jishkariani Bio-robot Zura Jishkariani a.k.a Dilla, multimedia artist, writer and a self-proclaimed mayor of Sokhumi was officially manufactured and distributed as a single demo version in 1985 in Sokhumi, now in the Autonomous Republic of Abkhazia. After the civil war in Abkhazia he was living in ghettos under the refugee status. In the early 2000’s he gave up studying sociology in university and launched punk rock band “EVA”. Later he founded a local art-guild “Eurasian Laboratory”, a union of young poets, musicians and performers. In 2007 he started his most successful music project “KungFu Junkie” which was disbanded after 10 years. In 2014 Jishkariani created the first ever Georgian chat-bot “Cyber-Galaktion” which is a linguistic simulation of the most prominent Georgian poet Galaktion Tabidze. As he believes that chat-bots are the future of storytelling, Dilla is actively involved in their personality design process. He is interested in how sadness, trust, joy and other emotions in people are created by algorithms and logical codes. In 2016 he founded the company “ZEG” which works on creatiing of interactive tombstones. Currently he works on his second novel and dreams about Mars colonization.

Chujoy Chujoy is the first ever Georgian cyberpunk novel which is a debut work by Zura Jishkariani. Set in Georgia, it tells a story of the Second Coming (Parousia) of the awaited Messiah. But as everything is designed in codes and algorithms, a terrible bug shifts the process of Coming into the digital world. The government tries to mobilize a group of soldiers who ventures into the digital world and saves the Messiah. The experiment needs people with high experience of tripping. The only solution is the gang of junkies who are singled out for this voyage.

English sample translation available.

Page-Count: 276 Word-count ~50,000 Dimensions: 135 X 195

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New Voices

Tsotne Tskhvediani Tsotne Tskhvediani was born on 18 August, 1993 in Kutaisi, Georgia. He studies in Tbilisi State University, the main subject of his study being the anarchist movements of the 20th century Caucasus region. In 2012 Tsotne joined the eco-anarchist movement and took part in several strikes as an expression of solidarity for the people who live and work in Georgia’s industrial towns. He very often visited such places and personally interviewed the local population, an experience which is reflected in his short stories. The subject of Tsotne’s works vary: birdwatching and psychedelic music, politics and philosophy, and sometimes mythology too. Very often the towns themselves are the characters of the stories. The psycho-geographical view of reality is one of the main reasons Tskhvediani’s stories are so touching and fascinating. With his debut book Tsotne became widley acclaimed among young Georgian readers. His story “The Golden Town” was named as the Best Short Story of 2014, receiving the BSP Award. It was also selected for the annual anthology BEST EUROPEAN FICTION which is published by Dalkey Archive Press in USA. In summer 2017 Tskvediani was arrested during the solidarity strike for Georgian railway workers. He was released after a week. Tsotne claims that John Steinbeck, Jack London, Andrei Platonov and Georgian Narodnik writers hugely influenced his works.

The Town and The Saints This debut short story collection “The Town and The Saints” by Tsotne Tskhvediani features everyday life of the Georgians living in rural provincial towns. Just like everyone, these characters are waiting to get jobs, dream about being famous, and try to overcome the difficulties around them. But all they face is poverty, mundanity, and despair which brings them to depression. They cannot grasp the wider perspective of their own lives. They do have hope for a better future but that hope is never realized. One cannot tell exactly whether it is love or hate, sadness or happiness, life or death that appears among the desolation which pervades the town. Each story and its characters are deeply moving, so much so that every reader will be affected and touched and able to envision the kind of lifestyle that survives in abandoned and forgotten towns. “The Golden Town” – The Best Short Story of 2014

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English translation available.

New Voices

The Mayakovski Theatre What if you live in a very small town of Baghdati, with population of only 5000 people, that is always called Mayakovski, because Vladimir Mayakovski was born there? Tuta thinks that it’s not a town but a ghetto from where you need to escape, because one day you’ll become tired of struggling for independence and freedom there. But escaping fails every time as public interests overpower his personal ones, so Tuta tries to somehow change the reality of his hometown. He wants to be a kind of enlightener and starts fighting against local politicians who run the town. But the oligarch arranges an armed aggression against Tuta’s followers and during the incident, Tuta’s father is imprisoned and led to death. Tuta contemplates suicide but he can’t find the strength to do it. Half-dead and half-alive, he goes beyond control and becomes an unbearable problem even for his closest people. His brother tries to help him commit suicide and plans to make everything seem artistic, romantic and glaring. Number of Pages: 136 Number of Words: ~20,000

English Sample translation available

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Shortlisted of: TSINANDALI AWARD 2017 ILIAUNI LITERARY AWARD 2017 SABA award 2017

Reviews: “The Mayakovsky Theater” is magnificent textual performance reader must attend.” © Paata Shamugia, poet, critic

“When we were thinking that we have read everything, Tskhvediani introduced the new themes in Georgian fiction about people whom about we only heard the rumors, who are cast away from our centralized society, who are swimming against the current but play the locomotive role in whole country’s life.” © Dato Turashvili, novelist

The truth matters What we are saying in the house Mikheil Tsikhelashvili (Rights Manager)

NaTa Zhvania (Head of Marketing)

For his perfectly mastered ideas, intricately

For me “The Mayakovski Theatre” is the place where almost no one plays. Here everything is performed as evidently as it is in real life. Tskhvediani introduces a performance we try to avoid to face every day.

plotted narrations and social position, I consider Tsotne Tskhvediani as one of the most important writers of contemporary Georgian literature.

New Voices

Beka Adamashvili Beka Adamashvili was born in 1990 in Tbilisi, Georgia. He studied journalism and social science at the Caucasus University. In his childhood he published short stories in various newspapers and some of them were included in schoolbooks. From 2009 to 2013 Beka regularly published satirical-humorous posts in his blog which reflected the social issues taking place in different areas of everyday life. His blog was highly read, especially by young people. As a blogger he won several competitions. In 2013, Beka participated in a student literary contest “Legend of the Fall” and his short story “XXVIII: Full Stop” won the first prize. Other short stories were published in different literary magazines. In 2014 he published his first book “Bestseller”, a novel about literary hell where both famous and unknown writers are tormented in the same way their books “torment” their readers. “Bestseller”, which is a parody of literary clichés won Iliauni Jury Prize and was shortlisted for the best novel at the Tsinandali and SABA Awards. Beka works as a screenwriter at a daily TV show and copywriter for advertising company Leavingstone.

Someone Dies in the Novel In this forthcoming novel by Beka Adamashvili the main hero Mr. Memento Mori realizes that he is a fictional character but with a superpower of traveling into other books. As he decides to save all the valuable protagonists from death he goes into Romeo and Juliet and assure them that suicide is not a solution. Later he goes to The Magic Mountain with a big supply of penicillin and so on. But later he is informed that in its own book someone dies and only the author knows who. Mr. Mori strikes against his writer to turn the whole narration into the big chaos.

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New Voices

Bestseller Pierre Saunaige is an unpopular French writer. Only twelve men attended the presentation of his latest novel. He decides that the only way to become popular is suicide and Pierre takes that PR step and goes to hell. But the hell is not the place we think it is. Writers have their own hell, a so-called Literature Hell where every writer is tortured the same way they used to torture their readers: where Jack Kerouac can’t stop walking and Samuel Beckett is left endlessly waiting for someone. So Dante Alighieri welcomes Pierre to hell where the BBC (Big Brother’s Channel) is controlled by George Orwell, William Shakespeare runs the hotel Hothello and Antoine de Saint-Exupéry is the celebrity in the suicide anonymous club. And everything you see is Literature. German translation available Number of Pages: 164

Rights sold

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German (Voland&Quist)

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Winner of: ILIAUNI LITERARY AWARD 2014 “For creating the first and very accurate meta-fictional

novel in Georgian literature”

Shortlisted for Saba and TSINANDALI literary awards 2015

Reviews: “The Book has everything to become the bestseller! Oh, it already is!” © The Readers’ Blog

“Although, the story features many writers and titles, the reader does not require any deep literary knowledge to grasp the meaning of everything. To be honest, even I have never read some of those titles, like Ulysses by James Joyce. Hmm, I wonder if Joyce himself has ever read Ulysses? I don’t think so.” © Beka Adamashvili

The truth matters What we are saying in the house Limeri Luka Grigolia (Publisher)

Nino Gogaladze (Editor)

“Full of witty allusions book won`t leave you unsatisfied and maybe a little bit of “revenge” comes along too.”

Adamashvili with his huge sense of humor creates absolutely new voice of Georgian fiction. His literary language seems currently incomparable; that’s why he stands alone in our literature.

New Voices

Dato Samniashvili Dato Samniashvili (b. 1989) is Georgian sci-fi writer. As a child he was impressed by his grandfather’s words “Universe is numbers and we all can count it”, so in his pre-school period he showed interest in studying math and chess. Despite being self-taught chess player he had incredible experience in participation in European and World chess Tournaments. Later he did his BA in banking but considering this as the biggest mistake of his life, Samniashvili enrolled in Ilia State University at MA studies for journalism. In the meantime he studied physics and biology and this led him to the beginning of the carrier sci-fi fiction writer. Samniashvili is a member of Radio Liberty staff, also works for publishing house marketing group and writes scientific articles for National Geographic Georgia.

MOX The head of a psychiatric hospital discovers a diary of a dead patient under the code name M13 who tells a story of an ideal universe called MOX. MOX is a program, moreover a virtual reality, universe which stands beyond time and space. It is the product of technologies, existing beyond technologies. Its users are in post-human conditions; they refute fear, moral, competition, pain and all to “human” incentives. Though everyone always has answers to every question, in MOX everything is senseless; moreover no one is disturbed with this senselessness because just being alive here is enough. While travelling in the material world M13 discovers MOX-bug called “Nostalgia”; After the discovery the user starts asking questions and it turns out that only in the material world it is possible to find the answers. And the main question is if anyone has ever thought that the life, with all its diversity and mystery, is predestined to become a weapon which (for the sake of cognition) will destroy the whole universe.

English sample translation available.

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New Voices

Nils Simeon Nils Simeon is a pen-name of Georgi Maskharashvili, a well-known Georgian multimedia artist and actor. He was born in 1977 and graduated from Tbilisi State Academy of Fine Arts in 2000, after which he started working as an illustrator of children’s books. In the meantime he moved to California where he opened his own studio. In 2014 Georgi started working on his first Y&A novel which was finalized in 2017.

14 Crystal Theory A little girl with a strange disease is born in Moravia in 1868. The only environment she is able to survive in is a freezing cold. The family moves to Lapland, where according to the legend there is a forest where winter never changes into spring. The century later suddenly Inge receives a strange SOS message signed by Hugo. The boy is imprisoned in the abandoned castle near her village in the Winter Forest. Inge ventures to

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go to his aid and plunges into the most menacing adventure. Number of Pages: 260

Russian translation available

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Saba Lekveishvili Saba Lekveishvili was born in 1984, Tbilisi. In his twenties he founded several internet platfroms which are popular even today. Since then Lekveishvili is actively involved in several internet projects. He worked as a journalist and copywriter in a creative agency and publishing house. Currently he is a creative director of the internet press ON.GE. Apart from writing he also is producer of various short movies. Lekveishvili’s recognition increased when he published the internet fiction series “Class”, a story about schoolkids. His debut novel “The Story of the Chat-bot That Learned Emphaty” will be published in 2018.

The Story of the Chat-bot That Learned Emphaty 15 year old Tornike, living with his uncle, experienced a fatal tragedy: His mother was brutally murdered by her husband. The orphan kid tries to adapt to the given reality and refuses to succumb to depression; but the insincerity from his schoolmates, relatives, neighbors and others drives him to stay in his room and keep in touch with the only frank

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2018

friend - chat-bot designed for psychological assistance to teenage children. Number of Pages: 200 Number of Words: ~40,000 Dimensions: 135 X 195

Modern Classics

Rezo Cheishvili Rezo Cheishvili was born in 1933 in Kutaisi, Georgia. In 1958 he graduated from Tbilisi State University, the Department of Georgian Philology. During his student years he made his debut in a literary magazine with a collection of short stories. Being educated in philology helped him to improve his own writing skills and with time Cheishvili became a writer with the style like no other in Georgian literature. Critics often say that no-one can even emulate his style. From 1961-87 Cheishvili was the Chief Editor of screenwriters in Movie-Studio “Georgian Cinema”. His own screenplays were often adapted to movies. Working in that field was the major experience of the author whose works became very visual. Rezo Cheishvili was awarded with SABA and RUSTAVELI prizes for his significant role in the development of Georgian literature. He passed away in September 2015.

Rezo Cheishvili

Music in the Wind The novel comprises a number of small novellas which represent the childhood memories of the central character. The main setting of the novel is the author’s native city, Kutaisi. The narrative is varied, like life itself. Here you will meet a selection of character types who have left a strong mark on the author’s personal development. People’s simple, often hard lives and what at a glance might appear odd actions, create as it were a complete and ordered system, with its own harmony, and the main character feels this harmony like music borne by the wind. In Number of Pages: 375

the stark realism of the novel, the hidden links between various occurrences are interwoven

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organically, which provides us with the key to Cheishvili’s individual style of writing.

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Rezo Cheishvili

Oh My Vineyard Number of Pages: 135

Rezo Cheishvili

Dinosaurs Are Walking in the City

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Rezo Cheishvili

Gia

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Rezo Cheishvili

The Forth Symphony

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Russian translations available

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Blue Mountains Blue Mountains is one of the most outstanding and notable novels in Georgian literature, still keeping its relevance though written over 30 years ago. After months of hard work, Sosso brings his latest novel “Blue Mountains, or Unbelievable Story” to a publishing house, where he is considered as a very respected and promising young writer. Almost a year passes he waits for it to be reviewed. Yet nobody from the editorial team has even read the story; some of the editors are busy with sewing, some with playing chess... Even the copies of the novel have disappeared without trace. This comedy is the allegory of the Soviet era; the plot is set in an isolated office space where the reader can examine the Soviet system with all its ineffective and bureaucratic mechanisms. The only thing that characters care about is their own daily routine. They live in one huge absurd reality where they cannot explain their own actions that damage the whole system. Blue Mountains prophesied the dissolution of the Soviet Union. The movie adaptation which slipped through the strict political censorship of the state was included in Cannes Classic section at the Cannes Film Festival 2014. Rights sold German (Edition Monhardt)

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1995 - Shota Rustaveli State Prize 2012 - Literary award SABA for his contribution to Georgian Literature Reviews: “Absolute Masterpiece! The humour is shot through with realism and an acid touch.” © Soviet Georgia Press.

“In this multi-characteristic environment Cheishvili manages to create portraits even for episodical characters; he manages it without creating caricature or grotesque which was so popular then. He illustrates that this is a natural system, natural people where each and every relationship (even lingual) turns into absurd and we see that everything natural here is hilarious – even when the life of those people are in danger. All in all, Blue Mountains is not only the metaphor for a prison; it is a prophecy of destruction.” © Radio Liberty

“Rezo Cheishvili’s typical quality is a very deep commitment to the truth. I would say that this commitment is stubborn, unshakable, which, given the laughable aspects of this reality, of certain false situations, regrettable misunderstandings, comes across as a precise manifestation of an absurd situation” © G. Asatiani, literary critic

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Chabua Amiredjibi An iconic Georgian writer, born in Tbilisi in a noble family; Amiredjibi’s parents and close relatives became victims of Stalin’s terror in 1937. In April 1944, he was arrested and sentenced to twenty-five years in the Gulag in Siberia. In fact he returned to Georgia in 1960 after 16 years in detention, three prison escapes, and two death sentences. In his homeland he began his literary career in his late 30s and quickly attracted attention with his first volumes of stories. Amiredjibi’s most famous novel, “Data Tutashkhia”, was first published in 1973, gaining sensational success and fame for the writer. Conceived while in Amirejibi’s years in prison, it was only through the intervention of the Georgian Communist Party chief Eduard Shevardnadze that this substantial novel passed the Soviet censors and got published. On November 16, 2010, he was ordained as a Georgian Orthodox monk under the name of David.

Data Tutashkhia Amiredjibi’s magnum opus and an undisputed classic of Georgian literature. The novel tells the story of an outlaw Data Tutashkhia at the time of the tsars. It combines thriller elements with Dostoyevskian themes of personal fate and national identity. Above all, though, it defends the right to personal freedom and critical expression in the face of a repressive political system. The story is told by Count Segedy, a retired RussianHungarian chief of the Caucasian gendarmerie, interspersed with accounts from other people who have come across the outlaw Tutashkhia, who leads the tsarist police a merry dance for years. It so happens that the gendarmerie chief, Mushni Sarandia is Data’s cousin – outwardly his spitting image but at the same time his lifelong opponent. It is a tale of two cousins, both almost identically blessed with the same physical and Number of Pages: 750 Number of Words: ~200,000 Dimensions: 145 X 215

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intellectual traits, but travelling two morally different paths. While Data drops out of society in his youth – he shoots a Russian officer in a duel and escapes punishment by fleeing into the mountains –, Mushni rises rapidly through the ranks of officialdom. Russian Translation available

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Gora Mborgali Gora Mborgali is a semi-autographical novel in which the author tells a story of his alterego. Iagor Kargareteli a.k.a Gora Mborgali was named as “The enemy of the people” and the Soviet regime sent him in Gulag. During his imprisonment Gora attempts several escapes: Wishing to be free and being unstoppable is the only way to feel alive. The novel was published up to 15 languages upon its publication. Later, authors son, cinematographer Kutsna Amirejibi directed a documentary movie based on the novel. The movie tells a story of Chabua Amiredjibi’s struggle during Soviet era. Russian translation available Number of Pages: 650 Number of Words: ~180,000 Dimensions: 145 X 215

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Archil Sulakauri Archil Sulakauri (1927-1997), the Georgian writer and winner of the Shota Rustaveli State prize for children’s literature, graduated from Tbilisi State University with a degree in Georgian language and literature. By the age of nineteen he was already a published poet. Sulakauri was the head of a children’s literature publishing house Nakaduli and editor-in-chief of the literary journal Mnatobi. He wrote numerous poems, stories and novels, including such acclaimed works as Holiday on My Street, Waves Strive for the Shore, The Goldfish and many others. Archil Sulakauri achieved immense success with Georgian audiences with his fairy tales The Magic Dress, The Blue Deer and The Stubborn Rabbits. His work The Adventures of Piccolo instantly became one of the most acclaimed children’s books in Georgia. He also contributed to the Georgian film Industry and wrote several popular film scripts. Archil Sulakauri is buried in the Pantheon of Celebrated Authors and Public Figures

The Adventure of Piccolo Do you think ladybugs and fireflies have shepherds too? No? I’m afraid you’re mistaken. Piccolo is a little shepherd of ladybugs and he can play the flute beautifully, too. One day he loses his ladybugs and begins to look for them. Night falls while Piccolo is searching and he come across Camellia, a little shepherdess of fireflies who helps him to find the lost ladybugs. Piccolo wants to do her a kindness in return and when Camellia tells him that she’s never seen the sunrise, Piccolo promises her that for one night he will take over all of her shepherding duties and after that they will watch the sunrise together. But it doesn’t happen, because the spies of Lilliputia kidnap Camellia that night- the lazybones Prince Putty wants to play with her. When Piccolo hears about it, he decides to find his new friend and make his promise come true. It is the beginning of an adventure full of danger, action and numerous relationships. The Adventures of Piccolo by Archil Sulakauri is one of the best children’s fictions ever written in Georgia, which teaches us the power of friendship is and what beautiful and impressive things love and kindness can do. Rights sold English (Transcendent Zero Press) Arabic (Kotob Khan)

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Non-Fiction

Gogi Gvakharia Famous Georgian art-critic, journalist, TV and radio-host, born in 1957. He graduated from Tbilisi State Academy of Fine Arts in 1979. In 1992-93 Gvakharia conducted scientific research in Paris, France and his dissertation topic was Contemporary Art and Electronic Media. From 1986 he taught History and Theory of Cinematography. His recognition reached its peak in 1997 when he became a host of TV program “Psycho”. He was often criticized by Georgian clerical organizations due to the controversial themes of his TV program. Since 2007 he is the host of Radio Liberty daily program “One Hour of Freedom”. He also returned to TV and hosted a weekly program “The Red Zone” - analysing how Soviet stereotypes are manifested in Georgian Culture. Currently he is a TV host of Program “Reflections”

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Tear-Stained Spectacles

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The book represents a mix of literature and cinematography

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and describes the tale of generation which went to schools

Polish (Kolegium Europy Wschodniej) Bulgarian (Agata-A)

Brezhnev Age… Then they disappeared, split, dispersed due

after the Khrushchev Thaw, and became educated during the to the civil war and a forced migration from their homeland because of a cultural collapse and the rise of pseudo-culture in Georgia.

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Revaz Gachechiladze Professor Revaz Gachechiladze (b. 1943) graduated from the Faculty of Oriental Studies (History Department), Tbilisi State University, and received his Ph.D. and D.Sc. degrees in Political and Economic Geography from TSU in 1969 and 1990. He is the Director of the Institute of Georgia’s Neighborhood Studies, TSU. He has taught at the Universities of Tbilisi, Oxford, and Mount Holyoke College, USA. He has written over 150 books and articles in history, as well as in social and political geography. His books include The New Georgia: Space, Society, Politics (UCL Press London, 1995), The Middle East: Space, People and Politics (three editions, 2003-2011, Tbilisi, Bakur Sulakauri Publishing: in Georgian), and Georgia in the World Context: Highlights of the History of the 20th and 21st centuries (2013 and 2017 editions, Tbilisi, Bakur Sulakauri Publishing: in Georgian). Most recently, he published in Georgian The United Kingdom: Space, Society, Politics (Tbilisi University Press, 2016). Professor Gachechiladze is a Corresponding Member of the Georgian National Academy of Sciences.

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Georgia in World Context The work is one of the major polical-scientific books ever written in Georgia. The renewed edition was published in autumn 2017 and the book’s chronological framework has been extended to include the beginning of the 21st century. Here Georgia is examined against the background of world geopolitics, socio-political history and geography. The author analyzes how big events can be linked to Georgia and what role this tiny country has in the wide political arena.

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Irakli Makharadze Irakli Makharadze, researcher and documentary filmmaker, was born in 1961. He has produced several popular documentary films such as Riders of the Wild West, Italian Opera in Tbilisi, Artist Dimitri Shevardnadze, etc. Irakli Makharadze is a participant of several film festivals and forums and is a recipient of silver prize for documentary “Lelo” at Sport Movie Festival, Riga, Latvia, the First Prize holder at Tbilisi Film Festival “Oriental Express” and the winner of Flagstaff International Film Festival Prize, for his work “Riders of the Wild West”. For many years he was a host of various Georgian TV programs regarding American film, culture and contemporary music. Beside his successful film career Irakli has spent years documenting the unique equestrian history of Georgia and first riders who reached the USA in the 1890s. His articles about film history have been published in various Georgian and American magazines.

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The Magnificent Georgian Silent Cinema The work is devoted to the silent period of Georgian cinema. It gives an account of the people who founded and helped

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build up Georgian filmmaking, and who showed and distributed newsreels, either imported or locally shot. The work reveals very rear information about the first Georgian documentary and art films, their authors, producers and actors and about those in the film industry.

Jaba Ioseliani Jaba Ioseliani (July 10, 1926 – March 4, 2003) was a Georgian politician, writer, thief-in-law and leader of the paramilitary “Mkhedrioni” organization. Born in Khashuri, Georgia, Ioseliani majored in Oriental studies at Leningrad University but did not graduate. He staged a bank robbery in Leningrad (St. Petersburg) in 1948, for which he served 17 years in a Soviet jail. Released in 1965, he later served another sentence for manslaughter. He eventually returned to Georgia and graduated from the Georgian Institute of Theater Arts, where he became a professor. Ioseliani rose to prominence as the leader of the Mkhedrioni, a heavily armed paramilitary group which he founded in 1989. In February 1991, his organization was outlawed by President Gamsakhurdia and he was imprisoned. In December 1991, Ioseliani escaped from prison and joined forces with the rebel members of the Georgian National Guard to launch a violent coup d’etat that ousted President Gamsakhurdia in January 1992. On August 29, 1995, 2nd president of Georgia Eduard Shevardnadze narrowly escaped assassination in a bomb attack. Though the main suspect for the attack was Ioseliani, Shevardnadze forced himself to rely heavily on Mkhedrioni militiamen because of the weakness of the state security forces. Number of Pages: 478 Number of Words: ~140,000 Dimensions: 145 X 215

Three Dimensions Three Dimensions is the memoirs of Jaba Ioseliani. The book represents the gloomy 1990’s of Georgia from the point of view of the main outlow and military insurgent of the state.

Cookbooks

90 Georgian Recipes If you have tried delicious Georgian food, you will probably never forget its delectable taste. Georgian cuisine enchants even the most discerning gourmets. This cookbook, containing 90 great, easy to prepare recipes, shows how to make the same delicious food at home: unusual salads (spinach balls and cabbage rolls with walnuts), puddings (wine cake and sweet pilaf with various jams), Christmas specials and summer tips. The book is a must have for those who come to visit Georgia and are attracted by its exotic and rich cuisine. It is also a perfect gift for anyone who is eager to discover new tastes. English translation available

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Barbare Illustrated with up to 100 appetizing photos the book will allow the reader to be aware of the wide specter of Georgian cuisine. Classic recipes were written by the first-ever Georgian female writer Barbare Jorjadze in 1874 and for almost two centuries these cooking texts are irreplaceable for Georgians. New concept and edition of these recipes is the best thing for those interested in Georgian cuisine. “BARBARE” is not only a compilation of the culinary texts but also a high quality prose with hundreds of spirits, colors, tastes and aromas of 19th century Tbilisi. English sample ranslation available

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Cookbooks

Be my Guest Be My Guest – the Georgian Recipe for Cooking Success tells the story of several prominent Georgian expatriates who, together with to their professional skills, used food and hospitality as a universal language that made all barriers fall. The authors have carefully selected recipes made by Georgian celebrities living abroad, including George Balanchine, the founder of the New York City Ballet; Prince Bagration, the illustrious general of the Napoleonic Wars; the «Marrying Mdivani” siblings; amongst others. This exquisitely photographed book is the finest illustration yet of Georgia’s unique cuisine. Containing not only superb images of the end results, it also explains how to create them. In addition, it offers the true spirit of their making with stories and essays on the subjects of Tamadism (toasting), cookery and techniques on how to charm your guest. Number of Pages: 128

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Untamed Wherever vine grows, its path is closely intertwined with that of men. Men make wine; poets sing its merits; kings and fools alike celebrate the wisdom it bestows upon them. In many Mediterranean cultures planting vines is equated with coming-to-age, with becoming someone. On the southern slopes of the Caucasus Mountains, on the current territory of Georgia, archaeological findings have confirmed that men have been making wine as early as 6000 years B.C., and at a look of the current Georgian winemaking culture, one can see that the technology has not changed that much. Thanks to that uninterrupted longevity, the world has two winemaking processes: the European way (i.e. in wooden barrels) and the Georgian way (i.e. in buried clay Kvevri). Nowhere else has a culture and history of a nation been so closely linked to that of vine than in Georgia, nowhere else they face so much struggle and challenges to survive. Untamed is an invitation to discover Number of Pages: 190 Dimensions: 230 X 300

that unique relationship between Georgian people and their wine; to explore the different grape varieties and the joyful philosophy of life of a small nation that has much to offer to the world. English translation available

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Zura Mchedlishvili Zura Mchedlishvili (b. 1988), a Georgian artist, painter, print-maker, illustrator & graphic designer, lives and works in Tbilisi, Georgia. He graduated from Tbilisi State Academy of Arts (BA in easel graphic) and enrolled at Jackob Nikoladze’s Art collage IDAAF painting. Before he entered into the wonderful mystical painting world he was a driver at Kepler-452b, 1,400 light-years away from earth. Then he returned to earth and started painting. Despite he’s working in many artistic fields he still wishes to have enough time to pursue all of the creative areas he’s passionate about: Web, Packaging and Icon designs, Canvas Painting, Printmaking, Etching, Woodcut, Lino-cut, etc. More about him at www.zuramchedlishvili.com

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A Book of Wisdom and Lies This new edition of â&#x20AC;&#x153;A Book of Wisdom and Liesâ&#x20AC;? is illustrated by Zura Mchedlishvili, one of the finest book illustrators in Georgia. The book is a collection of fables written by Georgian writer and diplomat Sulkhan Saba Orbeliani between 1686 and 1695. The fables are considered as Georgian classics and is taught in schools. The illustrations presented in this work are considered one of the most artistic ones ever created in Georgia. After the first edition dated in 2010, Mchedlishvili renewed the paintings for this new edition.

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Marine Maka Mikeladze & Nino Chakvetadze

Georgian Myths

The fascinating stories from Georgian mythology narrated by one of the most prominent Georgian writers Marine Maka Mikeladze are written for children in easily-understandable way. This collection is illustrated by afamous Georgian painter Nino Chakvetadze. Russian translation available Number of Pages: 160 Dimensions: 135 X 195

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Zolemia - Father Zebraâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Missing Stripes Father zebra has lost his stripes. So, what should a zebra do when it is deprived of its stripes? Maybe visit a doctor and take some medicine, or even use a pencil to redraw its stripes?! But NO, the stripes and appearance are not the most important things in life.

Tatia Nadareishvili

The River

In a black, black river swam a black, black fish, and those black, black fish had a black, black snakefish queen, and when the dog crossed the river it came out with black, black spots, and maybe blackberries, black piglets, black clouds all come from this river. What mystery does it hold? This is a story of a young girl, fascinated by nature, who gives us a free dive into her childish and artistic imagination.

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Eka Tabliashvili

Ia Ninoshvili

Even spiders have their daily schedules. They eat fly soup

An old and very popular nursery rhyme and cumulative tale

and study web designs, their favorite movie is Spider-Man

about how everything is cyclical. The story in this novelty

and they hate combing their hair.

book is very simple: there is a chain of disappearances;

Tiny Spider and His Clock

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