Sandro of Chegem

64 hrs. 21 min.

Humor & Satire

Language Russian

Author Fazil Iskander

Narrator Alexey Bagdasarov

Description

An epic novel in novellas, telling the full-of-adventures life story of Sandro, a trickster and joker, from an Abkhazian village. These stories balance on the edge of magical realism while remaining utterly realistic: the reality is simply full of incredible events, which sometimes turn out to be truly tragic. The fragmented nature of the narrative gives it a touch of fairy-tale-like quality. The author’s intoxicating language, incredible humor alternating with bitter irony, and vivid descriptions of Abkhaz everyday life make “Sandro from Chegem” the pinnacle of Iskander’s work—precisely for this novel he was proposed for the Nobel Prize in Literature. The writer worked on the novel for more than thirty years, repeatedly rewriting and expanding separate novellas, and along with the stories of Sandro’s adventures, we also follow the complicated history of Abkhazia in the 20th century.

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