Constrained by prevailing pandemic conditions in the Republic of Georgia, a small but spirited weekend opens the 2021 chapter in UNESCO’s program.
The World Book Day handover from Kuala Lumpur to Tbilisi took place on World Book Day (April 23). Image: Georgian Publishers and Booksellers Association
Kaladze: ‘A Unique Opportunity’
As is its custom, UNESCO’s World Book Capital program used World Book Day (Friday, April 23) to make its transfer from the 2020 city to the new 2021 designee.
Less than three years after its 2018 Guest of Honor Georgia program at Frankfurter Buchmesse–World Book Capital Tbilisi (2021) has accepted its new designation in a handover ceremony with Kuala Lumpur (2020). Guadalajara has been named the 2022 World Book Capital by UNESCO.
Falling Apart
Davit Gabunia s cinematic debut novel, Falling Apart
, from which this excerpt comes, recalls Rear Window
in its dark exploration of voyeurism, and broke ground it its treatment of a male sexual liaison. Gabunia found fame aged twenty-two as the Georgian translator of Harry Potter, and later Shakespeare and Ibsen.
The people in the photo look like blue and black blotches. I can’t pick out Tina. Just last night she was lying in bed, the door to the bedroom wardrobe open, the wardrobe out of which she’d taken her clothes and packed them up. If last night she’d woken up and said,
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