The asylum seeker

As a political refugee, Sulkhan Zhordania embarked on a breathless, exuberant journey of his imagination. Roaming the alleys and nooks of his mind, besieged by those who loved and hated him most, he contrived a complex tapestry of flashbacks and observations closely connected by the cruel, unpredictable circumstances of life which by the end of 2014 took shape of his autobiographical novel The Asylum-Seeker. With range and effect, philosophical weight, variety of characterization and tragic intensity, Sulkhan Zhordania captured better than anyone the collision of the State and the ego, the intrusion of the past into the skin, the conscience of every individual alive. Hope and disappointment, betrayal and love had been long there waiting for him to point out the truth.