Shorena Lebanidze’s documentary novel Pass to a Zone of Conflict is based on her memories as a journalist. The events covered by the author deal with one year at the end of the twentieth century: from the beginning of the Abkhaz war to the end of the civil conflict that had flared up in western Georgia. At the time Shorena Lebanidze was sent as a journalist to a hot spot to report from the front, and so undertook frequent journeys to Abkhazia and Samegrelo, holding the pass she was issued with in 1992 and which is today reproduced on the book’s cover. This memento, a forgotten document, featuring in the novel twenty years after the events, allows Shorena Lebanidze to take a look back and to reflect anew on the events she witnessed. The author describes the events through an emotional and highly appealing narrative, and tries to see very differently a Georgian reality that was full of killing, rage and fury.



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