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Forbidden Fruit-F.Iskander |
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Written by Sausryqua
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Monday, 14 May 2007 |
A story by Fazil Iskander
Translated from Russian by Sonia Melnikova
Published by TWO LINES, San Francisco, 2000
In accordance with the Muslim custom, we didn't eat pork in our family. The adults never ate it, and for the kids it was strictly forbidden. Although another commandment of Mohammed's — in regards to alcohol — was violated, as I realize it now, without any restraint, no such liberalism was allowed where pork was concerned.
The taboo engendered both fiery fantasies and icy pride. I dreamed about tasting pork. The smell of roast pork almost made me faint. I used to stand in front of the butcher's window, staring at the sweating sausages with their wrinkled skin and the cuts spotted with white driblets of fat. I imagined myself tearing off the rind and sinking my teeth into their juicy, rubbery flesh. So vividly did I imagine the taste of the sausage that when, eventually, I tried it for the first time, I was surprised at how exactly I had guessed it.
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The Last Of the Departed(E-BOOK) |
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Written by Sausryqua
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Saturday, 12 May 2007 |
In the struggle for the Caucasus between czarist Russia and Turkey all the Ubykhs and more than half the Abkhasians migrated across the Black Sea. The Ubykhs with their ancient history and culture ceased to exist.
Bagrat Shinkuba's novel, The Last of the Departed, is about how the Ubykh people became extinct in a historically brief period.
It happened not so long ago and within the lifetime of one Ubykh man, the main hero of the novel, the centenarian Zaurkan Zolak. His story is unfolded in the manuscript written by an Abkhasian linguist, Sharakh Kvadzba. The scholar goes to Turkey in 1940 spending two months there looking for people who still speak the Ubykh language. Finally he meets a man who calls himself an Ubykh...
The elder's life story is full of adventures and twists of fate. It presents a historically accurate picture of Ubykhs' tragedy. Obviously, this happened not only because they died of bullets and epidemics. The old Ubykh is plagued by the question, "Could it have been otherwise?"
And this is also of concern to the author, Bagrat Shinkuba, who finds the answer in the Abkhasian proverb: He who loses his country loses all.
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Mikhail Lakerba:Abkhazian writer, playwright, and theater expert. |
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Written by Sausryqua
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Sunday, 29 April 2007 |
Abkhazian writer, playwright, and theater expert.
Born January 6 (19), 1901, in the settlement of Merkheuli, now Gulripshsky County, Abkhazia. Started publishing his works in 1919. In 1921 thru 1925, was co-editor of the first Abkhazian Soviet newspaper Apsny kapsh (The Red Abkhazia). IN 1929, graduated from Law and Economics Department of Tbilisi Polytechnic Institute; in 1937, graduated from Higher Theatrical Courses in Moscow. Participated in the Great Patriotic War from 1941 to 1945. Authored the comedies Offspring Gechey (1939, staged in 1940) and In Sabydy Gully (1940, staged in 1941), historic drama Danakay (1946-1947, staged in 1956) and other, as well as librettos of operas, operettas, and music comedies. Most famous for his novellas. Laconic, nationally bright, and full of humor, they reflect the life of the Abkhaz people both before the October Revolution and in the Soviet times.
M.A. Lakerbay died on October 15, 1965, in Moscow.
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Yuri Voronov (1941-1995)-Abkhaz Scientist |
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Written by Sausryqua
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Friday, 02 February 2007 |
 Yuri Voronov (1941-1995), Abkhaz scientist and statesman who spent a major part of his life learning the history of Kodori gorge (he owned a farm in it), wrote a booklet named Drama of the Klukhor Path. He supposed this road was the branch of the Silk Way during several ages (Constantinople-Sebastopol-Khazaria-Central Asia-China). Many things excavated in Tsebelda (Tibilium) are the testimonies. This way, he says, was the way of peoples since olden times. It must be accommodated to the human and hardware movement. He was sure the construction of highway with a tunnel like alpine Simplon is the only solution for the region development. "Principally", he says, 'the Klukhor road would be the corridor which brings peace and stability, resisting the conservation of retarded lifemodes and concomitant wildness, ambition, pride". Who and how will construct the future highway, will be - it seems - a great enigma for long, long time.
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Valentina Hurhmal-Sculptor |
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Written by Sausryqua
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Friday, 02 February 2007 |
 Hurhumal Valentine was born in 1938. In 1965 has finished the Tbilisi art school branch of a sculpture. In 1970 has finished the Tbilisi Academy of arts. The constant participant of all-Union, republican, zone exhibitions. Her works were exposed in a Moscow, Riga and Vilnius ,Germany ,Italy ,India are in the Abkhazian National Gallery. Park sculptures are on Lake Ritza in Abkhazia.
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