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Review | Ravens Before Noah — a bleak yet poetic look at survivors of the Armenian Genocide
Susanna Harutyunyan’s 2015 novel eloquently captures the traumas remaining amongst survivors of the Armenian Genocide.
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Review | The Navigator — when GPS becomes your confidant
Lasha Bugadze’s play The Navigator won an award at the 2011 International BBC Playwriting Competition, where it premiered.
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Review | The Pear Field — a look at life in Tbilisi’s ‘school for idiots’
Nana Ekvitimishvili’s debut novel is a short, intense work that confronts society’s silence and ethical blind spots.
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Review | The Door Was Open: Short Stories — unveiling the dark side of Armenian womanhood
Karine Khodikyan’s uncanny and inscrutable short stories focus on lust, love, and death, and all the dysfunction that lies between.
Georgia
The Tsova-Tush children’s book aiming to save one of Georgia’s most endangered languages
A 2019 documentary failed to find anyone under the age of 30 who knew Tsova–Tush.
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Review | The Literature Express — misogyny dressed up as literary satire
Lasha Bugadze’s 2009 novel critiquing the art of literature, particularly the ‘Georgian author’, falls flat in its obsession with sex and sexism.
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Review | Solar Plexus: A Baku Saga in Four Parts
Famed Azerbaijani screenwriter Rustam Ibragimbekov’s 1996 novel captures the story of Soviet Baku across multiple generations.
