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Waiting for the Electricity : A Novel by Nichol, Christina is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.
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The most exciting and hilarious debut novel in years, a remarkable picaresque set in post-Soviet Georgia—land of corruption, love, and power shortages. In the republic of Georgia, the Communists are long gone, replaced by . . . well, by what? Something much more confusing, that's for sure. There are no jobs in the cities. And when there are jobs, employees aren't compensated. And when they are compensated, it's because the jobs are . . . not strictly scrupulous. In the village, life goes on much as it always did, but these days, the homemade farmers cheese is giving way to the oil pipeline. And as for romance in this strange, confounding modern age . . . the less said, the better. But there's one man in Georgia who remains unseduced by corruption, unfazed by nostalgia, and unable to abandon chivalry, no matter how antiquated a notion it may be. This man is Slims Achmed Makashvili, a humble maritime lawyer and the hero of this brilliant...
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Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.
- Author
- Nichol, Christina
- Publisher
- The Overlook Press
- Published
- 2014
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781468306866
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Fiction