Books by John Colarusso (translator)

“This is a collection of folk tales of the Circassians, Abkhaz and other peoples from Western Caucasus who had a corpus of legends that were their equivalent of Greek myths. They’re very peculiar stories with lots of parallels with the Greek myths. For example, there’s an Achilles character called Sosruquo who, instead of having a weak point in his heel, has a weak point in his knee.” Read more...

The best books on The Caucasus

Oliver Bullough, Journalist