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The Prose of the Mountains: Three Tales of the Caucasus
Aleksandre Qazbegi
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Description for The Prose of the Mountains: Three Tales of the Caucasus
Paperback. The latest title in the CEU Press Classics series presents three stories by the Georgian writer Aleksandre Qazbegi (1848-1893). Series: CEU Press Classics. Num Pages: 200 pages, 9 black and white. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 212 x 126 x 18. Weight in Grams: 248.
The latest title in the CEU Press Classics series presents three stories by the Georgian writer Aleksandre Qazbegi (1848-1893). Memoirs of a Shepherd poignantly chronicles the young author's seven years as a shepherd with Georgian mountaineers. Eliso is written from the perspective of a beautiful Chechen girl and offers one of the most searing accounts on record of the forced migration of their people from their homeland to Ottoman lands. Khevis Beri Gocha, the name of a Georgian village chief, is a classic tale set in the sixteenth-century about a tragic misunderstanding between a severe father and his loving son. ... Read more
The latest title in the CEU Press Classics series presents three stories by the Georgian writer Aleksandre Qazbegi (1848-1893). Memoirs of a Shepherd poignantly chronicles the young author's seven years as a shepherd with Georgian mountaineers. Eliso is written from the perspective of a beautiful Chechen girl and offers one of the most searing accounts on record of the forced migration of their people from their homeland to Ottoman lands. Khevis Beri Gocha, the name of a Georgian village chief, is a classic tale set in the sixteenth-century about a tragic misunderstanding between a severe father and his loving son. ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Central European University Press
Condition
New
Series
CEU Press Classics
Number of Pages
264
Place of Publication
Budapest, Hungary
ISBN
9786155053528
SKU
V9786155053528
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About Aleksandre Qazbegi
Qazbegi was one of the most prescient and gifted chroniclers of the Georgian encounter with colonial modernity. His stories offer an invaluable counterpoint to the predominantly Russian narratives that have shaped scholarly accounts of the nineteenth century Caucasus. Biographic notes on the author, a number of classic photos and an essay by the editor help place the stories in time, ... Read more
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