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ssive new talent comes an absorbing and original novel of politics, family ties and betrayal. Set in Georgia, USSR from the 50S to the 90S, told through the eyes of an apparatchik of the Communist regime the banner of the passing clouds depicts life under the totalitarian Communist regime in Georgia from the 50S to 90S, when Georgia gained independence from the Ussr. Its compelling narrator, who is born in the day Stalin dies, is given Stalin's name by hospital nurses, Iosif Dzhugashvili. When Iosif learns of his strange link to the 'Man of Steel', he becomes convinced that Stalin has found a new dwelling place within his chest, a burden he hoth welcomes and fears. The banner of the passing clouds vividly describes life in Tbilisi and gives an extraordinary insight into living under communism in Georgia. in Iosif, Anthea Nicholson has hreated a unique narrator: A victim of the regime, which dictates all aspects of his and his family's life, who is also complicit in its ideology and practices. As an unquestioning citizen of communism, he is disconcertingly unpleasant, yet he remains curiously pathetic and moving figure. It is only when Iosif unwittingly destroys his family's happiness that some kind of redemption is possible for him.

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Contemporary Fiction

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Literature Fiction, Contemporary Fiction Book is recommended for Students, Teachers, Graduates, Professionals, and all bibliophiles

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