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HARD BY A GREAT FOREST - LEO VARDIASHVILI KARTO...

'This novel annihilated me. I gasped  laughed  and wept my way through it' KHALED HOSSEINI
'Tender and raw and funny  it's a rattling good read' COLUM MCCANN 'A wildly charming debut -
propulsive  funny  and profound' ELIF BATUMAN Tbilisi's littered with memories that await me
like landmines. The dearly departed voices I silenced long ago have come back without my
permission. The situation calls for someone with a plan. I didn't even bring toothpaste. Saba
is just a child when he flees his home in Georgia with his older brother  Sandro  and father 
Irakli  for asylum in the UK after Russia's occupation of South Ossetia. Two decades later  all
three men are struggling to make peace with the past  haunted by the places and people they
left behind. When Irakli decides to return to Georgia  pulled back by memories of a lost wife
and a decaying but still beautiful homeland  Saba and Sandro wait eagerly for news. But within
weeks of his arrival  Irakli disappears  and the final email they receive from him causes a
mystery to unfold before them: 'My boys  I did something I can't undo. I need to get away from
here before those people catch me. Maybe in the mountains I'll be safe. I left a trail I can't
erase. Do not follow it.' In a journey that will lead him to the very heart of a conflict that
has marred generations and fractured his own family  Saba must retrace his father's footsteps
to discover what remains of their homeland and its people. By turns savage and tender 
compassionate and harrowing  Hard by a Great Forest is a powerful and ultimately hopeful novel
about the individual and collective trauma of war  and the indomitable spirit of a people
determined not only to survive  but to remember those who did not.

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