Jesus' Cat: Stories

by Grigor Shashikyan (aka Grig), Nazareth Seferian (Translator)

Overview

Jesus’ Cat is the first book by this young prose writer. The stories involved in this collection reveal, on the one hand, a unique writing style, and on the other, an original perspective on the world and people. This combination allows characters to develop in Grig’s creative space that helps readers discover another invisible side of life.

This book was published with the support of the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Armenia under the “Armenian Literature in Translation” Program

Translated from the Armenian by Nazareth Seferian

Proofread by Teresa Wigglesworth-Baker

Publishers Maxim Hodak & Max Mendor

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781912894369
Publisher:	Glagoslav Publications B.V.
Publication date:	08/08/2019
Pages:	140
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.33(d)

About the Author

Grigor Shashikyan (aka Grig) was born in Yerevan in 1991. In 2015 he received his Master's Degree at the Faculty of Armenian Philology at Yerevan State University, where he wrote his thesis on world literature and theory of literature. Grig's first collection of short stories called Jesus' Cat was published in 2015. In 2016 Grig was awarded a special prize after Levon Ananyan under the "Yerevan Bestseller" project organized by the "Armenpress" news agency. In the same year he was awarded a youth prize by the President of the Republic of Armenia for his collection of short stories Jesus' Cat. Grig's stories have been published in various literary journals and anthologies, both in print and digitally. Now he is doing a PhD at Yerevan State University.

Table of Contents

FOR THE “LITTLE GUY” 7

Jesus’ Cat

THE LITTLE GUY 11

ONE PERSON’S CITY 16

TWO SILHOUETTES 24

A SMALL, GRAY SUITCASE 32

CROWS 39

JESUS’ CAT 43

THE BASEMENT 48

ADADA 56

ABOUT THE CLOUDS 62

FEATHERS 66

MACINTOSH 71

MEETING 79

BIRDS IN THE SKY 84

SELFIE WITH A TEAPOT 91

THE CITY OF DOGS 98

THE FLY 106

STIGMA 111

KAMIL 116

I AM AN ALARM CLOCK 121

GUARDS 125