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Cupid at the Kremlin Wall

Aka Morchiladze

When a woman travels to the heart of the empire to demand answers from Stalin himself, is it an act of bravery or a tragic comedy written by fate?

What unfolds in the "Mezhdunarodni" carriage en route from Tbilisi to the Kremlin is a story no Soviet filmmaker could ever capture as a comedy. It is, at its heart, a tragedy disguised by the absurd. Told through the witty, "researcher" voice of an Imeretian narrator, Cupid at the Kremlin Wall (კუპიდონი კრემლის კედელთან) recounts the incredible journey of a young Georgian woman traveling directly to Stalin to find her husband, who has vanished without a trace into the void of the system. With a blend of melancholy and sharp humor, Aka Morchiladze vividly reconstructs the terror and surrealism of the era the world now knows simply as the Stalinist regime.

Original Title კუპიდონი კრემლის კედელთან
Language Georgian
Publication Year 2018
Page Count 324
ISBN 9789941375484
Dimensions 13 x 19.5 cm

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