La ville en fuite / The City on the Run – Tekgyozyan

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Author:

Jean-Chat Tekgyozyan

Publication Date:

Belleville Editions
October 2018

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THE CITY ON THE RUN

Rights Holder: Belleville Editions
Original Language: Armenian (French translation)

Gagik is a twenty-something student at the prestigious Erevan Film School. One hot summer evening, he meets Grigor online. Grig is gay, Gagik is not. They remain friends.

During a pool party where the elite of the corrupt government, including Gagik’s father, the young men fall under the spell of Edita: a foreigner who has fled her origins and roams around their country looking for « Heaven’s gate ». The two friends decide to follow Edita, whom they have nickname « Octopus», on a road trip that leads then to Lake Sevan against a back drop of alcohol, drugs and moud music.

What follows in the adventures of this love triangle would be without consequence if each did not keep a secret impossible to reveal in a society that doesn’t escape its taboos.

Jean-Chat Tekgyozyan sketches an audacious and poetic portrait of the Armenian youth, an elusive result of a an era full of turmoil.

Hovhannes Tekgyozyan, author, actor, screenwriter, was born in Erevan in 1974. In 2014, he moved to Strasbourg, learned French, went back to school, became Jean-Chat Tekgyozyan and threw himself into independent theater.

La ville en fuite was published in 2012 and was his first novel. He went on to win several prizes like the Vahan Tekeyan Prize, the equivalent of the Orange Prize for best Armenian novel, and the IGEFA for best new Armenian author.

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