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Product Identifiers
PublisherDeep Vellum Publishing
ISBN-101564788792
ISBN-139781564788795
eBay Product ID (ePID)201565179
Product Key Features
Book TitleKvachi
Number of Pages512 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2015
TopicGeneral, Literary
GenreFiction
AuthorMikheil Javakhishvili, Mixeil Javaxiesvili
Book SeriesGeorgian Literature Ser.
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height1.6 in
Item Weight23.3 Oz
Item Length8.4 in
Item Width5.5 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN2014-026081
Dewey Edition23
ReviewsIf you read one 500-page classic of Georgian literature this year, make it Mikheil's Javakhishvili's galloping 1924 epic Kvachi..., A long-buried classic of Eastern European literature in the picaresque mould of Cervantes and Fielding... Fast-paced dialogue, black humour, and camaraderie-among-thieves keeps the antics fun and ingenious. Recommended for fans of daring and rebellious literature., Kvachi is... an international con-man, through whose eyes we see Europe and Russia as nothing but a rogue's hunting ground.... The abrupt, sardonic prose brims over with inventiveness., "Kvachi is... an international con-man, through whose eyes we see Europe and Russia as nothing but a rogue's hunting ground.... The abrupt, sardonic prose brims over with inventiveness." -- Donald Rayfield, The Literature of Georgia
Grade FromCollege Graduate Student
Dewey Decimal899/.9693
SynopsisThis is, in brief, the story of a swindler, a Georgian Felix Krull, or perhaps a cynical Don Quixote, named Kvachi Kvachantiradze: womanizer, cheat, perpetrator of insurance fraud, bank-robber, associate of Rasputin, filmmaker, revolutionary, and pimp. Though originally denounced as pornographic, Kvachi's tale is one of the great classics of twentieth-century Georgian literature--and a hilarious romp to boot.
LC Classification NumberPK9169.J39K8213 2014
