Asynchrony

Diana and Lina are conjoined twins who live with their grandmother in the impoverished post-Soviet Sakartvelo, isolated from the outside world. The sisters are forced to exist in one body, although they have very different personalities: the serious and practical Diana does not always understand the emotional and romantic Lina. The girls keep diaries, and these entries are the only place for them where they can be themselves, to be in the singular. The death of their grandmother and a terrible flood destroy the twins' usual and well-established life. They are kidnapped from the hospital, and they find themselves in a circus, where they are forced to perform in an entertainment show.

“Asynchrony” is the debut novel of the Kartvelian writer Ekaterina Togonidze, in which she reveals the theme of discrimination against people with physical disabilities. This is a poignant story about defenselessness and vulnerability, indifference and cruelty. About two souls in which angels lived until humans broke in.