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Kvachi Serbia observes with surreal vision theKvachi 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,