The Prose of the Mountains: Three Tales of the Caucasus

by Rebecca Ruth Gould, Aleksandre Qazbegi, Alexander Kazbegi

The Prose of the Mountains contains three tales of the Caucasus by Aleksandre Qazbegi, 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 hitherto shaped scholarly accounts of the nineteenth-century Caucasus. "Memoirs of a Shepherd" poignantly chronicles the young author's decision to pass seven years of...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 6155053529
• ISBN13: 9786155053528
• Release Date: July 2015
• Publisher: Central European University Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 4.9" x 8.2"
• Age Range: 18 years and up