Elza Kuga’s Old-Age Dementia
Julio José Ordovás was born in 1976 in Zaragoza
but with a particular emphasis on post-independence fiction
In this unique collection
In the middle of these absurd tales
Kvachi United States of America Elza Kuga’s Old-Age DementiaKvachi is . . . an international con man, through whose eyes we see Europe and Russia as nothing but a rogues hunting ground . . . The abrupt, sardonic prose brims over with inventiveness. Donald Rayfield, The Literature of Georgia This is, in brief, the story of a swindler, a Georgian Felix Krull, or perhaps a cynical Don Quixote, named Kvachi Kvachantiradze: womanizer, cheat, perpetrator of insurance fraud, bank robber, associate of Rasputin,