The goatibex constellation - Hardcover

Iskander, Fazil′

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0882330713 ISBN 13: 9780882330716

Publisher: Ardis Publishers, 1975

Synopsis

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.

About this title

About the Author

Fazil Iskander was born in 1929, in Sukhumi, in the Soviet Union. He is the author of many stories, novels, and novellas, including The Goatibex Constellation and Sandro of Chegem. In 2010 he was awarded the Russian Order of Merit for the Fatherland. He lives in Moscow.

Language Notes

Text: English, Russian (translation)

Edition details

• Publisher: Ardis Publishers
• Publication date: 1975
• ISBN 10: 0882330713
• ISBN 13: 9780882330716
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 132