Coca
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Mikhail Gigolashvili is the author of the novels Tolmach, The Devil's Wheel (shortlist and reader's vote prize of the Big Book Award), Capturing Moscovia (shortlist for the NOS Prize), and The Secret Year (Russian Prize).
In his new novel Coca, the recognizable young hero from The Ferris Wheel continues his psychedelic epic. Amsterdam, Paris, Russia and - of course - Tbilisi. Everywhere - tempting freedom... but from what? Social and criminal bottom, tender nostalgia, irresistible temptations and tragic accidents, sharp satire and evangelical motifs are combined into a single canvas, where Bosch competes with lyricism of the highest caliber and accompanies the hero to a German madhouse, then to a Russian prison. I would like to be only a reader, to experience all this together with the heroes of the novel, without paying for a ticket to the "Ferris wheel" with my health and the lives of my friends. I envy you. Andrei Pale ("25/17") Gigolashvili has written his sharpest and most vivid text yet. Mature craftsmanship and impeccable creative calculation. Dmitry Bavilsky Grotesque, as it should be in real prose, neighbors here with tragedy, intertwining so closely that the seams are not visible. Dina Rubina
In his new novel Coca, the recognizable young hero from The Ferris Wheel continues his psychedelic epic. Amsterdam, Paris, Russia and - of course - Tbilisi. Everywhere - tempting freedom... but from what? Social and criminal bottom, tender nostalgia, irresistible temptations and tragic accidents, sharp satire and evangelical motifs are combined into a single canvas, where Bosch competes with lyricism of the highest caliber and accompanies the hero to a German madhouse, then to a Russian prison. I would like to be only a reader, to experience all this together with the heroes of the novel, without paying for a ticket to the "Ferris wheel" with my health and the lives of my friends. I envy you. Andrei Pale ("25/17") Gigolashvili has written his sharpest and most vivid text yet. Mature craftsmanship and impeccable creative calculation. Dmitry Bavilsky Grotesque, as it should be in real prose, neighbors here with tragedy, intertwining so closely that the seams are not visible. Dina Rubina
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