Obole
by Aka Morchiladze
Description
Irakli, a playwright living an urban routine in Tbilisi, suddenly receives a call from his hometown saying that the roof of his ancestral house is damaged and requires a repair. While exploring the damage in the attic of the house he comes across a beautifully crafted flinlock, a family heirloom nicknamed obOlé after a Georgian word for an “orphan” because of a simple reason – the gun cannot fire; but legends say that it saved its owner during the wartime. Day by day Irakli’s long-forgotten childhood memories and the history of his province awakes and he struggles not to be lost between the reality and dreams.
In the meanwhile locals team up with the province police; a noble criminal lady Madone is expected to show up at her father’s burial to mourn her loss. As she will not come alone, shooting is expected.
obOlé is the book of symbols where the author mocks modern-day pseudo-heroism too. While it broadly overviews the culture and customs, attitudes and rituals of the mountanious regions, it keeps the detective storyline on each and every page.
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Author Biography
Arguably the biggest name in contemporary Georgian literature, historian Giorgi Akhvlediani chose Aka Morchiladze as his penname. His debut novel “Journey to Karabakh” (1992) led to his success. He was immediately named as a brilliant storyteller by critics and the media and since then he keeps that status. Morchiladze also was an extremely popular sport-columnist in the 1990’s. In the early 2000’s he also was a TV host of the program “Unknown Georgia” at Georgia’s #1 public broadcaster. Currently he lives in London which allows him to see, analyze, describe and illustrate Georgian phenomena from an outsider’s point of view as well from the very center of the culture.
Morchiladze is being considered as “many writers” as he believes that writers have no style but seperate books have. So his works which count more than 20 novels are narrated by the 19th century Georgian nobleman and 90’s urban junkie slang as well as by Soviet propaganda-spreading academics and old, sweet village people. His novels are easily adaptable into feature movies and stage plays.
Bakur Sulakauri Publishing
Sulakauri Publishing was established in 1999. After years of a hard work and dedication, it gained success and today stands as a leading Publishing House of the Country. Sulakauri Publishing is known for producing books for all ages and of almost all kinds: fiction and non-fiction, documentary, biography, Graphic Novel, comic books, books for children and young adults, educational books, culinary and wine books.Works of some of the great minds and big names of the contemporary Georgian Literature, who have received different national or international awards over the years, were published first by Sulakauri Publishing.Our list consists of acclaimed authors such as Aka Morchiladze, Ana Kordsaia-Samadashvili, Zaza Burchuladze, Dato Turashvili, Lasha Bugadze, Archil Kikodze and many more.Sulakauri Publishing actively seeks and supports new names and works on spreading the voice of Georgian Literature worldwide.
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- Publisher Sulakauri Publishing
- Orginal LanguageGeorgian
- ISBN/Identifier 9789941155345
- Pages260
- Publish StatusPublished
- Original Language Titleობოლე
- Original Language AuthorsGeorgian
- Dimensions135/195 mm
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