In a series of semi-independent tales, Iskander tells the 80-year story of Uncle Sandro from the 1880s to the 1960s. Sandro's story is also the story of the Abkhazian people, with all their customs, superstitions, passions and sufferings....
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. ...
From the Russian author of the banned book Sandro of Chegem, this satire of life in the twentieth century USSR takes on agricultural production and genetics. The Goatibex Constellation is the story of a young newspaperman who returns to his nat...
Man and His Surroundings irreverently explores Soviet and post-Soviet identity, politics, and history. In what Iskander himself calls the book’s seminal novella, the narrator meets a man who believes himself to be Lenin, thawed out after decade...