THE FOREST OF MEMORIES

“The Forest of Memories” is the debut novel of young Georgian writer Nato Kipiani, written in English. It is the story about loss, remorse and renunion. The author brilliantly and vividly describes the emotional struggle of Dylan or Genji, the protagonist, who spent his childhood in a village in southern Japan together with a neighbour boy Ayumu, his closest friend, but left there to another country after a painful tragedy of his life. Since then, he has been captured in the forest of memories with apparently no way out”, – Yasuhiro Kojima.