Tea on the Wreckage

By Nino Gugeshashvili

This collection of short stories is a lyrical mosaic of memory, place, and human resilience. Rooted in Georgia - its villages, mountains, roads, and everyday rituals - the narratives move between childhood recollections, family histories, fleeting encounters, and quiet acts of solidarity. Ordinary moments acquire symbolic weight: a barking dog, a light bulb on a stage, walnuts falling in autumn, a song sung out of tune. The author's voice blends tenderness, irony, and moral clarity, revealing how personal experience intersects with history, loss, and communal life. These stories are not driven by plot but by attention, to language, to gesture, to what persists despite hardship. Together, they form a meditation on endurance, dignity, and belonging, where memory itself becomes an act of care and resistance, and where the smallest details preserve the spirit of a land and its people.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1772312916
• ISBN13: 9781772312911
• Release Date: March 2026
• Publisher: Bookland Press Inc.
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 1.36 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"