Tales from the Banks of the Rhine is a collection of 27 documentary stories. The author wrote it at the University of Bonn, Germany during her student years. The book is about the relations of a woman, a student at the University of Bonn, whose dream of studying at a European university came true after 20 years of delay. The author has great experience of life, and she faces the new world whose culture doesn’t seem strange for a person from Georgia, but is still very different from the post-Soviet reality that is full of stereotypes and misconceptions created about the Western world – sometimes positive and sometimes negative. Tales from the Banks of the Rhine is a book of observations, surveys, and comparisons, because the author’s mind is constantly in the mode of comparison; she is eager to guess the common and distinctive points of Georgian-German and Western-Eastern life. People who she meets help her in various situations. And they are: neighbors, classmates, university professors, artists, singers, writers, or immigrants. Whatever her conclusion, the narrator never loses her sense of humor. And humor is not just a narrative style; it also shelters the narrator and always takes her out of crises.