Georgia

The Pear Field
by Nana Ekvtimishvili

Tbilisi-born Nana Ekvtimishvili’s first novel is a stunning and uncompromising tale, set in the Residential Home for Intellectually Disabled Children – known by the locals as the School for Idiots. Amid malnourishment, abuse and neglect two resourceful inmates learn to rely on companionship and humour, to rise above their fate to fool their 'carers' – and astound the reader.

Translated by Elizabeth Heighway
Peirene Press, 2020
First published in 2015
ISBN 9781908670601