Exploring the balance: A review of Leo Vardiashvili's Hard By a Great Forest

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The debut novel is a riveting tale of family, loss, and redemption, filled with vivid imagery and emotional depth

Lost your password? Please enter your username or email address. You will receive a link to create a new password via email.Lost your password? Please enter your username or email address. You will receive a link to create a new password via email.At one end of the scale, we have authors like sci-fi luminary Frederik Pohl, who once famously turned down an invitation to participate in a competition to write a short story of 500 words or less because, “It takes me 500 words to answer the phone.

The phrase “hard by a great forest” is the opening line of the story Hansel and Gretel by the Brothers Grimm. Despite having divorced her before war broke out, Irakli is determined to get Eka out of Georgia and give his sons a mother in their new country. Usually, but not always, the two children are Saba and Nodar, the man who starts off as a taxi driver and eventually becomes a companion in a journey with increasingly high stakes.

Three degrees here, a couple more there and then, all of a sudden, you’re knee-deep in that sensation that you get when trying to find your lodgings late at night in a strange place. “I could have sworn it was over there …”

 

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