Автор:Fazil Iskander Год: 1989 Издание:Raduga Publishers Страниц: 216 ISBN: 5050024447 These short stories, like most of Iskander's tales and fables, take place in his beloved home, the Muslim region of Abkhazia near Georgia. They range over a great deal of territory--growing up, going to school, rembrances of eccentric characters from the Abkhazia of Iskander's youth. Like Bulgakov's satires, however, Iskander's stories also have a more political substrata. Several stories subtly aim their arrows at the Soviet regime. In one story, Forbidden Fruit, a boy who snitches on his sister for eating pork is punished for his actions. In another, One Day in Summer, the story a German tourist tells our narrator about his experiences under the Nazis seems a critique of Soviet responses to Stalin. In still another, Old Crooked Arm, an eccentric outwits both his friends and the Soviet state.
