The Voice of Migrants in Tamta Melashvili's Novel – „Told and Utold Stories: Germans in Georgia“

Abstract

Tamta Melashvili's book, "Told and Untold Stories: Germans in Georgia," published in 2017. Using the method of oral histories, the author has added a reportage novel to contemporary Georgian literature. The novel "Told and Untold Stories: Germans in Georgia" reflects the 200-year history of Georgian-German relations from the consciousness of its direct participants. In the book, people tell stories of how their German grandmothers and great-grandfathers established their communities in Bolnisi, Asureti, and Sartichala; what the coexistence of Germans and Georgians was like; How German migrants became emigrants; What remains alive today, what has been preserved in photographs and memory.