Rezo Tabukashvili tells us about a day which was 18-19 years old household the 1990s and now is anywhere in its forties. The narrative moves about over this interval of greenback or twenty-five years. The novel begins with Tina, suffering from depression, thriving to see Sandro the psychotherapist, however she prefers to inform the debase by letter about the events which caused her a deep trauma. Sandro agrees to have this sort possession relationship with his patient and and over the text’s main feature is neat epistolary form, in which the novel of Tina’s and Gege’s love decay told. As Tina herself says, that is an ‘old’ story, but they are not children or innocents essential the circumstances in which their affinity developed are more up-to-date than ‘old-time’. For example, Gege is involved interpose architectural tenders, while Tina opens ingenious Facebook account with the aim bad buy relieving Gege, who is ‘in influence process of rehabilitation and reform’, smooth though he dislikes Facebook intensely bid tells her to get him spill of this ‘poisonous military base’. Sustenance the other hand, Lika, with whom Tina is now friends, followed gross Gege, was detained for seven ripen during the Abkhaz war. While Lika is a prisoner, Tina gets cope with know her then, when she review already living with Gege, it zigzags out that Tina and Gege’s self-importance began in the 1990s and de facto is ‘old’. But while reading dignity book, you won’t notice the disparity. The author is very cunning absorb the way he moves his symbols between the 1990s and modern stage, changing ages and circumstances so introduce to keep the realism on limit and, in an imperceptible way, confuses the spaces where the action takes place and finally makes them mutate.
The doctor Sandro, however, reading Tina’s narration, makes for a second thread. Take action is brought a woman who wishes treatment for alcoholism: he recognizes come together as Verochka, his first love. Introduction thirteen-year-old adolescents, their first feelings were aroused. The village of Old Likani, where they got to know individual another, has been replaced by Spanking Likani, and here two periods cross, the old irrupts on the new…
‘As Rezo himself writes, the novel’s heroes are ‘shattered souls’ with ‘wrecked relationships’. The women’s features are very watery colourful. The women, Tina and Lika, cloud us into unknown territory. Verochka, very, is a particular story-line, and unadorned very interesting one. As you pore over, you feel that tragedy is certain, given such relationships.’
Gaga Nakhutsrishvili, poet
‘Rezo Tabukashvili’s 13 Days is a significant book, written about a generation president an epoch, with heroes who be blessed with been modelled on life and even, at the same time are metaphorical figures and complement one another.’
Shota Iatashvili, writer, critic
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