Tracy Kenny
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Leo Vardiashvili:
Hi Leo I've just finished Hard by a Great Forest. Max at Bloomsbury said how good it was, and he's usually right. I can't wait to put it in my customers' hands. I'll be writing to Sara O'Keeffe. Thank you for such a moving novel. I just couldn't put it down. A question then: Why do you think they're calling it Science Fiction?
Leo Vardiashvili
Hi Tracy,
I'm glad you enjoyed the novel and thank you for the praise - but that's far too kind of you!
Your question promted a closer look at the Goodreads tags - I had no idea I wrote Science Fiction.
I suppose there are some surreal, magic realism elements to the novel. There are mentions of portals, adjacent worlds intersecting with ours, and fairytale elements tugging at the edges of reality.
Maybe this is why it got tagged as Sci-Fi? From the feedback so far, the novel seems to be one of those annoying ones that doesn't neatly fit into a genre.
I hope that (sort of) answers your question!
Cheers,
Leo
I'm glad you enjoyed the novel and thank you for the praise - but that's far too kind of you!
Your question promted a closer look at the Goodreads tags - I had no idea I wrote Science Fiction.
I suppose there are some surreal, magic realism elements to the novel. There are mentions of portals, adjacent worlds intersecting with ours, and fairytale elements tugging at the edges of reality.
Maybe this is why it got tagged as Sci-Fi? From the feedback so far, the novel seems to be one of those annoying ones that doesn't neatly fit into a genre.
I hope that (sort of) answers your question!
Cheers,
Leo
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Riana
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Leo Vardiashvili:
I am curious to know whether you were interested in words as a child growing up in Sololaki, did you ever write stories back then? Or was writing something you began in the UK? And did you begin your writing in Georgian - as a way to survive the isolation you felt, at first, living in a foreign land?
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