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Giwi Margwelaschwili
Officer Pembry
Novel, approx. 160 pages
Hardback with dustcover
€ 19.90 | 37 SFr
ISBN 978-3-935843-90-4
Original edition (German)
September 2007
Officer Pembry is caught off guard – his future has apparently been inscribed in a thriller written about a hundred years ago called “The Silence of the Lambs”. He is supposed to fall prey to an intelligent cannibal named Hannibal Lecter when the guy breaks out of prison. At least, that what Detective Myreader from the Prospective Investigation Department keeps telling him, and he doesn’t seem to have a screw loose. To escape his fate, it seems Pembry must pick up the book and read it against the flow in order to save his skin. It is ten years since Giwi Margwelaschwili last produced a novel about the “lives we read”, an intelligent game with the reality of book worlds and the meaning of reading for those who read and those who are read about. »Officer Pembry« is a gripping sci-fi thriller and also a thoroughly enjoyable literary gem.
Giwi Margwelaschwili was born in Berlin in 1927 as the son on Georgian émigrés. His mother died when he was four. His father taught Philosophy and Oriental Studies. In 1946 both father and son were abducted by the Soviet security agency, the NKVD. The father was murdered, Giwi Margwelaschwili was interned in Sachsenhausen then deported to Georgia, where he became a German teacher. It was not until 1987 that he as able to settle in Germany. He brought with him innumerable novels and short stories written in German during his exile. In 1994 he was granted German citizenship and an honorary fellowship from the German President. In 1995 the State of Brandenburg awarded him its Honorary Prize for Literature in recognition of his lifetime’s work, and in 2006 he received the Goethe Medal. He is a member of P.E.N. and lives in Berlin. His works (in German) include: »Muzal – A Georgian Novel «, »The Evil Chapter «, »Captain Vakush« and »The Gauntlet That Was Not Thrown«.
»A once-in-a-century author « Berliner Zeitung