Translated from the Russian by Helen Burlingame Praised by The New York Times Book Review as an Abkhazian Mark Twain, Fazil Iskander was one of the most acclaimed w riters in the Soviet Union-and also one of the funniest.
The Goatibex Constellation is the story of a young new spaperman w ho returns to his native Abkhazia and is soon caught up in the publicity campaign for a newly produced farm animala cross between a goat and a West Caucasian tur. What follows is a vicious and hilarious satire of the Soviet Union's top-dow n approach to agriculture, genetics . . . and just about everything else.
Harshly criticized at home upon its publication in 1966, The Goatibex Constellation is as fresh, imaginative, and damning today as it w as then.
