The Book of Tbilisi. Wednesday, May 23rd. Doors open at 5.45 for a 6.00pm start

Georgian Embassy, 4 Russell Gardens, W14 8EZ

The British Georgian Society is delighted to welcome Becca Parkinson from Comma Press with  Zviad Kvaratskhelia and Bacho Kvirtia, two of the young writers featured in  the Book of Tbilisi. The book is published by Comma Press and the publisher, Becca Parkinson, will talk about the project.

As Gvantsa Jobava writes in his introduction to the book: “The ten stories selected for this book offer a kind of literary guidebook to an outside world that used to be very remote. They tell you about the human challenges of living in a small country struggling to maintain its place on the map…..The stories selected  are from a generation that grew up in decades of hardship but managed to adapt to an almost endless series of changes; a generation that contributed to the collapse of the old system, coped with the consequences of that collapse and invested all its energies in the building of a new one.  Furthermore, these authors in particular struggled and survived as representatives of a new, open society, in order to hold a mirror up to the city and the country they live in.”

Comma Press has kindly offered the book to all BGS members at a massively reduced price! £8 inc P&P. Please indicate your BGS membership.

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