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Sandro of Chegem

work by Iskander

Also known as: “Sandro iz Chegema”

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In Fazil Iskander
…novel Sandro iz Chegema (Sandro of Chegem), an unfinished collection of anecdotes loosely based on the often comic life of the Abkhazian character Uncle Sandro. It chronicles the collision of Soviet values with Abkhazian patriarchal village life. Able to publish only a highly abridged version in the Soviet Union…
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