Ferris wheel
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A cult novel in a new cover. It was first published in 2009, and in 2010 it won the readers' sympathy prize of the "Big Book" award, becoming one of the most discussed literary events.
A cross-section of the era. Perestroika, its causes and consequences, its impact on people's lives. The heroes of "Devil's Wheel" are caught in the wheel of history, each turn of which promises them a new turn in life. Georgian flavor. About the life of the social bottom of perestroika Georgia tells the author who thoroughly knows this environment. An epic picture of the south of the former Soviet Union of those years, when the borders, customs and orders were changing. Crime and Punishment. Heroes of the book - policemen and criminals, bribe takers and traitors, shopkeepers and underground millionaires. Gigolashvili's novel can be read as a twisted police detective, and as a social and psychological drama, and as a historical epic of the late twentieth century. Dashingly twisted plot of the novel is not inferior in the dynamics of acute dramas.
A cross-section of the era. Perestroika, its causes and consequences, its impact on people's lives. The heroes of "Devil's Wheel" are caught in the wheel of history, each turn of which promises them a new turn in life. Georgian flavor. About the life of the social bottom of perestroika Georgia tells the author who thoroughly knows this environment. An epic picture of the south of the former Soviet Union of those years, when the borders, customs and orders were changing. Crime and Punishment. Heroes of the book - policemen and criminals, bribe takers and traitors, shopkeepers and underground millionaires. Gigolashvili's novel can be read as a twisted police detective, and as a social and psychological drama, and as a historical epic of the late twentieth century. Dashingly twisted plot of the novel is not inferior in the dynamics of acute dramas.
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