Sandro of Chegem

Literature & Fiction

Iskander, Fazilʹ

Contemporary

Vintage/Ebury (A Division of Random House Group)

The story of the comic adventures of Uncle Sandro ranges from the 1880s to the 1960s and satirizes life in a small village under Soviet domination

Vintage Books

Text: English, Russian (translation)

The Gospel According to Chegem

History & Criticism

Vintage

The Old House Under the Cypress Tree

Faber&Faber

The goatibex constellation

Ardis Publishers

Praised by The New York Times Book Review as “an Abkhazian Mark Twain,” Fazil Iskander was one of the most acclaimed writers in the Soviet Union―and also one of the funniest. The Goatibex Constellation is the story of a young newspaperman who returns to his native Abkhazia and is soon caught up in the publicity campaign for a newly produced farm animal―a cross between a goat and a West Caucasian tur. What follows is a vicious and hilarious satire of the Soviet Union’s top-down approach to agriculture, genetics…and just about everything else. Harshly criticized at home upon its publication in 1966, The Goatibex Constellation is as fresh, imaginative, and damning today as it was then.

Goatibex Constellation

ARDIS

A humorous tale about the deteriorating relations between two groups: the rabbits and boa constrictors, Iskander's story, like Animal Farm, is also a humorous critique of power.

Rabbits & Boa Constrictors

Woodstock, New York, U.S.A.: Ardis

Rabbits and Boa Constrictors

Peterson, Ronald E.

Praised by The New York Times Book Review as “an Abkhazian Mark Twain,” Fazil Iskander was one of the most acclaimed writers in the Soviet Union—and also one of the funniest. In Rabbits and Boa Constrictors, Iskander tells the story of a struggle between . . . well, rabbits and boa constrictors, which is really a struggle  between the manipulators and the manipulated as they try to function in a failed utopia. (Sound familiar?)

Rabbits and Boa Constrictors: A Novel

The Overlook Press

The Goatibex Constellation is the story of a young newspaperman who returns to his native Abkhazia and is soon caught up in the publicity campaign for a newly produced farm animal―a cross between a goat and a West Caucasian tur. What follows is a vicious and hilarious satire of the Soviet Union’s top-down approach to agriculture, genetics…and just about everything else. Harshly criticized at home upon its publication in 1966, The Goatibex Constellation is as fresh, imaginative, and damning today as it was then.

The Goatibex Constellation: A Novel

Humor & Satire

Harry N. Abrams

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