Mezipřistání

These autobiographical stories are set mostly in the reality of a prefab housing estate in Tbilisi. For the narrator, Georgia means a new foreign country, new wanderings, new encounters and a new, unintelligible language, along with a growing weariness of the grey chaos of the big city, which he tries to drown out with occasional escapes to the Black Sea, to the Caucasus, to Moravia and Bohemia, and back into childhood. The mostly hard and bitter lives of the people he meets, many of them forty-somethings afraid to step from an idealised, traditional childhood into the thicket of the present, intertwine with his own, around the search for a home, literal or as a safe refuge.

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About the book

Form

Short stories

Length

131 pages in the original

Genres

Autofiction, Migration (assigned by AI)

Set in

Georgia

First published

2020 by Host

Author's age

40 when first published

ISBN

9788027503704 (original)