With Tsigrit, Tamar Nikuradze creates a unique literary universe that invites and challenges the reader to experience the kind of tragic-comic dislocation and insight that mirrors some of the 20th-century experiences of the Soviet sphere. Nikuradze herself is a product of the country of Georgia, that unique, ancient and complex culture, and her extraordinary linguistic skills and imagination have enabled her to produce a work of startling perception. Part Dostoevsky, part Bukowski, part Bulgakov and still yet all its own, Tsgrit demands the reader to buckle up as a precondition of the ride.