Book Presentation: “The First Monday of April” by Alexander Brailovsky

Book Presentation: “The First Monday of April” by Alexander Brailovsky

“Who writes the script of our lives? And is there even a script at all?”
— wonders a Tbilisi bookish boy whose childhood unfolded in the 1960s.
He wants to live like the heroes in his favorite novels. But what’s the point of it all?
Is there anything in life more important than love? For him — seemingly not. His life is made up of love stories.

But there’s also a family story, a country’s story, and the twists of these narratives take him from Ukraine to Georgia, Georgia to Russia, Russia to Israel, and finally to France, the land he dreamed of as a child.

There are lifelong friendships (and the pain when they don’t last), a guiding Book, unforgettable women, adventures, and fateful encounters. There’s even a princess waiting in a Burgundian castle — ready for their fairytale wedding…
And then everything collapses — because of one unexpected, absolutely unnecessary meeting… 40 years later.

A family saga? A romantic caper? A picaresque novel? Or a love story?
A kind of Don Juan–style “anti-Lolita”, considering the hero’s attraction to “mature” women?
In truth, the novel contains all of this.

On the first Tuesday of July, join us at Auditoria as author Alexander Brailovsky presents this multilayered novel, where timelines, geographies, and destinies intertwine.