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Jaqo's Dispossessed

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Original title
  
ჯაყოს ხიზნები

Publication date
  
1924

Pages
  
300 pages

Author
  
Mikheil Javakhishvili

Language
  
Georgian

Media type
  
Print (hardback)

Originally published
  
1924

Country
  
Georgia

Jaqo's Dispossessed

Genres
  
Social novel, Philosophical fiction

Similar
  
Philosophical fiction books, Other books

Jaqo's Dispossessed (Georgian: ჯაყოს ხიზნები; Jaqos khiznebi) is a novel by Georgian novelist Mikheil Javakhishvili. It was first published in magazine Mnatobi (in 1924 - № 7–8 and 1925 - № 1). During his life, it was published twice as a book, in 1925 and 1926. It took author 20 years to write this novel. This novel, which depicts social problems in the early 20th century of Georgia, is reputed to be a magnum opus of the author.

Plot

A principled nobleman Teimuraz Khevistavi with his wife Margo live poorly in Tbilisi and are getting more impoverished due to Soviet invasion in Georgia. Their farm laborer Jaqo takes advantage of naivety and poverty of Teimuraz and seizes whole their belongings through deception.

References

Jaqo's Dispossessed Wikipedia