Absinth Georgian Literature SeriesIn Absinth, youll meet three main characters trying to figure out their life on the backdrop of the upcoming Apocalypse: Iris, a fortune teller who cannot see not the future but weirdly anachronistic versions of the past; Sid Saperstein, a shameless huckster chosen to publish a sacred manuscript whose message will shake heaven and earth alike; Hermes, the Greek messenger god, dispatched by Zeus to sound out his fellow deities, still smarting from the
—Christian Moraru
" he complains
Antonio Lobo Antunes
mythical love story
in a fit of impotent madness
It resembles a city in a fairy tale – filled with secrets and drama
is often melancholic and soulful
where we feel anything might still be possible
these negotiations
an elegy for thought itself
proving once again that American literature has no better poet of love and loss than Micheline Aharonian Marcom
accompanied by great beauty and compassion