Hard by a Great Forest shortlisted for an award
Leo Vardiashvili’s beautiful debut, Hard by a Great Forest has been shortlisted for the Author’s Club Best First Novel award. In announcing the shortlist, the judges described Leo’s work as follows:-
“A haunted and haunting debut about love and loss, Vardiashvili transports us to Georgia in the noughties. A powerful account of the devastation wrought by war and its far-reaching effects.”