“This is the story of a guy and a girl from different ethnic and religious groups falling in love, and the surroundings give this depth. Tbilisi now seems completely Georgian, but 100 years ago there were more Armenians than Georgians.”

Georgia and the Caucasus

Per Gahrton, Politician

“The Romeo and Juliet of the Caucasus.”

Conflict in the Caucasus

Thomas de Waal, Foreign Correspondent

“It’s a novel, and really it’s a love story between a young Muslim Azeri man and a Christian Georgian woman and it’s full of historical, cultural, political facts.”

Azerbaijan

Nigar Hasan-Zadeh, Poet

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