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‘This novel annihilated me. I gasped, laughed, and wept my way
through it’ KHALED HOSSEINI ‘Tender and raw and funny, it's a
rattling good read’ COLUM MCCANN ‘A wildly charming debut –
propulsive, funny, and profound’ ELIF BATUMAN Tbilisi’s
littered with memories that await me like landmines. The dearly
departed voices I silenced long ago have come back without my
permission. The situation calls for someone with a plan. I didn’t
even bring toothpaste. Saba is just a child when he flees his home
in Georgia with his older brother, Sandro, and father, Irakli, for
asylum in the UK after Russia’s occupation of South Ossetia. Two
decades later, all three men are struggling to make peace with the
past, haunted by the places and people they left behind. When
Irakli decides to return to Georgia, pulled back by memories of a
lost wife and a decaying but still beautiful homeland, Saba and
Sandro wait eagerly for news. But within weeks of his arrival,
Irakli disappears, and the final email they receive from him causes
a mystery to unfold before them: ‘My boys, I did something I
can’t undo. I need to get away from here before those people
catch me. Maybe in the mountains I’ll be safe. I left a trail I
can’t erase. Do not follow it.' In a journey that will lead him
to the very heart of a conflict that has marred generations and
fractured his own family, Saba must retrace his father's footsteps
to discover what remains of their homeland and its people. By turns
savage and tender, compassionate and harrowing, Hard by a Great
Forest is a powerful and ultimately hopeful novel about the
individual and collective trauma of war, and the indomitable spirit
of a people determined not only to survive, but to remember those
who did not.
General
Imprint: |
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
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Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
Release date: |
February 2024 |
Authors: |
Leo Vardiashvili
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Dimensions: |
234 x 153 x 30mm (L x W x T) |
Pages: |
352 |
ISBN-13: |
978-1-5266-5981-1 |
Categories: |
Books
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LSN: |
1-5266-5981-6 |
Barcode: |
9781526659811 |
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