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Hard by a great forest / Leo Vardiashvili.
"A devastating story of one family's border-crossing adventure to rescue one another and make peace with the past, set in the former Soviet republic of Georgia, two years after the occupation of South Ossetia by Russia in 2008"-- Provided by publisher.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780593545034 (hardcover)
- Physical Description: 340 pages ; 24 cm
- Publisher: New York : Riverhead Books, 2024.
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| Subject: | Fathers and sons > Fiction. Intergenerational relations > Fiction. Refugees > Fiction. Former Soviet republics > Fiction. Georgia (Republic) > Fiction. |
| Genre: | Domestic fiction. Novels. |
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- 1 of 1 copy available at Tsuga Consortium.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Lakeshore Branch | FIC Vardi | 31681010357499 | FICTION | Available | - |
- Baker & Taylor
After fleeing the former Soviet republic of Georgia as a child and being forced to leave his mother behind, Saba returns to their beautiful, decaying homeland to search for his brother who went missing while searching for their father. - Baker & Taylor
"A devastating story of one family's border-crossing adventure to rescue one another and make peace with the past, set in the former Soviet republic of Georgia, two years after the occupation of South Ossetia by Russia in 2008"-- - Penguin Putnam
ONE OF NPRâs âBOOKS WE LOVE" 2024
NAMED ONE OF THE OBSERVERâS 10 BEST NEW NOVELISTS FOR 2024
"The stakes could barely be higher in Leo Vardiashviliâs propulsive page-turner…Itâs a spellbinding achievement."âThe Financial Times
âHas 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 Europeâs war-torn corners.â âLos Angeles Times
"This novel annihilated me.... Left my heart bruised and battered and aching for more."Â âKhaled Hosseini, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Kite Runner
âTender and raw and funny.â âColum McCann, National Book Award winning author of Let the Great World Spin
"Propulsive, funny, and profound."âElif Batuman, Pulitzer Prize finalist and bestselling author of The Idiot
âA book like no other, from an imagination like no other.â âAndrew Sean Greer, Pulitzer Prize winning author of Less Is Lost
Amid 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 over
Saba 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: âI left a trail I canât erase. Do not follow it.â
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 fatherâs 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.
