Summary
German Sadulayev: I, Chechen!
Book I, Chechen! consists of the stories One Swallow Doesn't Make Spring, Why the Sky Doesn't Fall and When the Tanks Awoke and six more stories dedicated to the wars in Chechnya and based in many respects on the biography of the author himself. It is not just a book about war, but a lyrical yarn of Caucasian legends, stories and memories of people involved in the bloody vortex of the Russian-Chechen tragedy. After he published the book I, Chechen! critics declared Sadulajev the literary discovery of the year. The excellent translation by Žarko Milenić is also provided with the necessary cultural notes and explanations.
German Sadulajev was born in 1973 in the village of Šali, in the Chechen-Ingush Republic of the USSR. His father is Chechen and his mother is Russian, actually a Terek Cossack (from the Terek River). In 1989, he went to Leningrad with the intention of studying journalism. There he published articles in the newspaper for youth. At the last minute, he changed his mind and enrolled in law. Today he lives and works in Saint Petersburg as a lawyer. He wrote his first work, the short story, One swallow does not make spring, in 2001, and it was first published on the Internet. The author sent it to various publishers, but only one publisher was interested - Ultra-Kultura from Yekaterinburg. The editor promised Sadulajev to publish a book if he wrote a few more prose pieces, and so a book was published in 2006 under the title I - Chechen!
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