{"product_id":"adibas-by-zaza-burchuladze","title":"'Adibas' by Zaza Burchuladze","description":"\u003ch4\u003eZaza Burchuladze’s \u003cem\u003eAdibas\u003c\/em\u003e is a jagged, satirical Georgian novel set in a city where war, branding, sex, pop culture, political panic and luxury-consumer boredom all blur into the same bad signal.\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt follows a cast drifting through Tbilisi while conflict presses in, but is sort of ambient. The bombings are mentioned almost casually, news and rumour circulate, and everyone seems at once terrified, distracted, horny, bored, stylish, compromised, and permanently online before “online” quite became the whole condition. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe book has a nasty comic brightness to it, which you can kind of feel from the icky of the cover. The aesthetic hums with swimming pools, fake reggae style, celebrity references, paranoia, nationalism, pornography, bodies, music, cheap glamour, military dread. All the absurdity of living through history while still being annoyed by cocktails, clothes, exes and other people’s taste. It is very much in that post-Soviet\/post-2008 zone of capitalist hallucination. The world is ending, but someone is still talking about collagen injections.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGood for readers of contemporary Eastern European fiction, Dalkey Archive oddities, post-Soviet satire, Pelevin, Sorokin, Houellebecq-adjacent social rot, or anyone drawn to fiction that treats geopolitics as something experienced through malls, pools, screens and bodies.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDalkey Archive Press paperback, first edition, 2013. Originally published in Georgian as \u003cem\u003eAdibas\u003c\/em\u003e by Bakur Sulakauri Publishing in 2010. Translated by Guram Sanikidze. Very good second-hand condition, with light handling and shelfwear only.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"bower studio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45711852699731,"sku":null,"price":18.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0689\/0268\/2707\/files\/thebowerbooker-2026-06-18T094506.416.png?v=1781739919","url":"https:\/\/bowerbooks.com\/products\/adibas-by-zaza-burchuladze","provider":"bower books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}