Leo Vardiashvili

Un debut literario poderoso. Todos los caminos conducen a secretos engullidos por los grandes bosques de Georgia. «Me he quedado sin aliento, he reído y he llorado.»Khaled Hosseini Considerado el nov

AN OBSERVER BEST NEW NOVELIST FOR 2024 A spellbinding achievement FINANCIAL TIMES Poignant and often painfully comic OBSERVER I gasped laughed and wept my way through it KHALED HOSSEINI Hugely impressive NEW EUROPEAN Novels like this might help light the way GUARDIAN At once a puzzle hunt and an affecting meditation on exile ECONOMISTTbilisi 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 s father is missing and the trail leads back to Tbilisi Georgia It s been two decades since Irakli fled his war torn homeland with two young sons now grown men Two decades since he saw their mother who stayed so they could escape At long last Tbilisi has lured him home But when Irakli s phone calls stop a mystery begins Arriving in the city as escaped zoo animals prowl the streets Saba picks up the trail of clues strange graffiti bewildering messages transmitted through the radio pages from his father s unpublished manuscript scattered like breadcrumbs As the voices of those left behind pull at the edges of his world Saba will discover that all roads lead back to the past and to secr

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AN OBSERVER BEST NEW NOVELIST FOR 2024 *'A spellbinding achievement' FINANCIAL TIMES'Poignant and often painfully comic' OBSERVER'I gasped, laughed, and wept my way through it' KHALED HOSSEINI'Hugely impressive' NEW EUROPEAN'Novels like this might help light the way' GUARDIANTbilisi'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's father is missing, and the trail leads back to Tbilisi, Georgia.

Devant les ravages de la guerre à l’aube des années 1990, Saba, son père Irakli et son frère Sandro doivent fuir la Géorgie pour rallier l’Angleterre. Eka, leur mère, restée sur place, meurt avant de

Un debut literario poderoso.Todos los caminos conducen a secretos engullidos por los grandes bosques de Georgia.«Me he quedado sin aliento, he reído y he llorado.» Khaled HosseiniConsiderado el nov

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ONE OF NPRs BOOKS WE LOVE" 2024NAMED ONE OF THE OBSERVERS 10 BEST NEW NOVELISTS FOR 2024"The stakes could barely be higher in Leo Vardiashvilis propulsive page-turnerIts a spellbinding achievement."The Financial TimesHas a commercial-fiction spring in its step. Vardiashvili also has captured the winking, world-weary humor and magic-realist touches that mark a lot of literature from Europes war-torn corners. Los Angeles Times"This novel annihilated me.... Left my heart bruised and battered and aching for more." Khaled Hosseini, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Kite Runner Tender and raw and funny. Colum McCann, National Book Award winning author of Let the Great World Spin"Propulsive, funny, and profound."Elif Batuman, Pulitzer Prize finalist and bestselling author of The Idiot A book like no other, from an imagination like no other. Andrew Sean Greer, Pulitzer Prize winning author of Less Is LostAmid rubble and rebuilding in a former Soviet land, one family must rescue one another and put the past to rest: a stirring novel about what happens after the fighting is overSaba is just a child when he flees the fighting in the former Soviet Republic of Georgia with his older brother, Sandro, and father, Irakli, for asylum in England. 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 message they receive from him causes a mystery to unfold before them: I left a trail I cant 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 fathers 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.

AN OBSERVER BEST NEW NOVELIST FOR 2024 SHORTLISTED FOR THE WILBUR SMITH ADVENTURE WRITING PRIZE 2024 A spellbinding achievement FINANCIAL TIMES Poignant and often painfully comic OBSERVER I gasped laughed and wept my way through it KHALED HOSSEINI Hugely impressive NEW EUROPEAN Novels like this might help light the way GUARDIAN At once a puzzle hunt and an affecting meditation on exile ECONOMIST 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 s father is missing and the trail leads back to Tbilisi Georgia It s been two decades since Irakli fled his war torn homeland with two young sons now grown men Two decades since he saw their mother who stayed so they could escape At long last Tbilisi has lured him home But when Irakli s phone calls stop a mystery begins Arriving in the city as escaped zoo animals prowl the streets Saba picks up the trail of clues strange graffiti bewildering messages transmitted through the radio pages from his father s unpublished manuscript scattered like breadcrumbs As the voices of those left behind pull at the edges of his w