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Moving story about the author's return home to Georgia, now a Soviet country, after 40 years living in the US. His American wife Helen accompanies him. The majority of the book is a retelling of the stories of his childhood - village life in Kobiantkari, the death of his mother, his life growing up with his father, visiting his brother who has been taken in by a relative, adventures with his boyhood friends, advice from the village elders, apprenticing in Dushet, to name a few. At the end of the
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