“Sandro from Chegem” is the main book of Fazil Iskander, a series of stories about the rogue and sage Uncle Sandro from a mountainous Caucasian village who a...

Collection of poems, ballads and poems by Fazil Iskander.

This volume includes selected stories and tales by Fazil Iskander. Beginning The Rooster A story about the sea The Thirteenth Labor of Hercules My uncle of t...

This book by Fazil Iskander brings together short stories, sometimes cheerful and funny, sometimes sad and tragic, the action of which takes place in the eas...

The world in which Fazil Iskander’s heroes live is a miniature copy of our big world, where the funny and the tragic, wisdom and stupidity, cunning and innoc...

Praised by The New York Times Book Review as “an Abkhazian Mark Twain,” Fazil Iskander was one of the most acclaimed writers in the Soviet Union — and als...

“... I wanted to know why he was grinning there, and I tried to discreetly look into the newspaper. “Do you want to read it?” - he asked briskly, noticing my...

Fazil Abdulovich Iskander (1929–2016) – master of prose, poet, essayist, author of witty aphorisms. “Childhood shapes a person, and many childhood impression...

Fazil Iskander is a writer, understandable to everyone and loved by everyone, endowed with a unique and grandiose literary gift and a sensitive heart that pe...

In Iskander's fantastic fairy tale, boas and rabbits - despite their seemingly complete opposites - form a single whole. A special symbiosis arises. A specia...