Novels Plot Summary 202: A Man Was Going Down the Road

"" by Otar Chiladze was first published in Georgian in1973. The book was translated into English by Donald Rayfield in 2012.

It is an allegorical novel that describes the treachery and destruction that followed after Russia annexed Georgia. It also presents the author's interpretation of life as a version of the ancient Anatolian story of Gilgamesh.