A Book Launch for Georgia through its Folktales 14th April 2010

A Book Launch for Georgia through its Folktales, with readings from the
book by the author and signed copies available.

Wednesday 14th Aptil 2010,  at 7.30pm.

At Tamada – a Georgian restaurant serving authentic Caucasus cuisine
Address: 122, Boundary Road, London NW8 www.tamada.co.uk.

Georgia through Its Folktales

With translations by Ketevan Kalandadze illustrations by Miranda Gray

ISBN: [978-1-84694-279-2] Price: £11.99 Pages: 160 Format: Paperback

“Everything shifts in the Caucasus, blown by some of the strongest winds
on earth. Even the ground moves, splintered by fault lines. In early
Georgian myths, it is said that when the mountains were young, they had
legs – could walk from the edges of the oceans to the deserts, flirting
with the low hills, shrouding them with soft clouds of love” (Griffin,
2001, p.2).

But what about those aspects of life which remain relatively constant –
the traditional practices of the people, the practices that are reflected
in their folktales and their folklore? It is these constants that this
study concentrates on. Find out about the land with which the earliest
folklore of Europe is connected – the land where Noah’s Ark is said to
have settled, the land of the Argonauts and of Prometheus.