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DANCING WITH THE DEAD: A Neo-Noir Detective Thriller — Where Black Comedy Meets Tragic Absurdity
Nestled in the Caucasus Mountains, the Dreamland of Mountains hotel is far from an ordinary resort.
Behind its quirky bar and rustic charm lies a darker a hub for smuggling and crime. When a shipment goes missing, alliances fracture, and paranoia runs high. With their lives on the line, the hotel’s owners must navigate betrayal, absurd comedy, and a deadly survival game.
Dancing with the Dead blends the sharp wit of black comedy with the suspense of neo-noir, delivering a narrative of desperate humor and tragic absurdity.
Behind its quirky bar and rustic charm lies a darker a hub for smuggling and crime. When a shipment goes missing, alliances fracture, and paranoia runs high. With their lives on the line, the hotel’s owners must navigate betrayal, absurd comedy, and a deadly survival game.
Dancing with the Dead blends the sharp wit of black comedy with the suspense of neo-noir, delivering a narrative of desperate humor and tragic absurdity.
80 pages, Kindle Edition
Published November 15, 2024
About the author
Mikho Mosulishvili
41 books12 followersMikho Mosulishvili was born in 1962. He is a writer and playwright who graduated from Tbilisi State University’s geography-geology faculty in 1986. From 1981 to 1984 as a special second subject, film drama in the university’s faculty.
After 1986 he worked as a geologist in Georgia’s geographic-geophysical field teams and then as a newspaper journalist. For several years he translated art films from English to Georgian for various television companies.
He has published twenty-three novels, stories, plays, and translations. Twenty performances based on his plays in various Georgian theatres, as well as television and radio. He is co-author of the television serial Night of Small Stars (Georgian Television, Channel One, 1999).
His works have been translated into Japanese, Latvian, English, German, Russian and Armenian.
Mikho Mosulishvili awarded the Honor Medal by the government of Georgia in 1998, and in 2024, he received the Saguramo Prize from the Ilia Chavchavadze Saguramo State Museum for his complete body of work in the Prose category.
"As it seems to me, the writer's skill lies not only in writing but also in removing everything unessential." - the motto by Mikho Mosulishvili.
After 1986 he worked as a geologist in Georgia’s geographic-geophysical field teams and then as a newspaper journalist. For several years he translated art films from English to Georgian for various television companies.
He has published twenty-three novels, stories, plays, and translations. Twenty performances based on his plays in various Georgian theatres, as well as television and radio. He is co-author of the television serial Night of Small Stars (Georgian Television, Channel One, 1999).
His works have been translated into Japanese, Latvian, English, German, Russian and Armenian.
Mikho Mosulishvili awarded the Honor Medal by the government of Georgia in 1998, and in 2024, he received the Saguramo Prize from the Ilia Chavchavadze Saguramo State Museum for his complete body of work in the Prose category.
"As it seems to me, the writer's skill lies not only in writing but also in removing everything unessential." - the motto by Mikho Mosulishvili.
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November 24, 2024
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About Dancing with the Dead
This is not a story for the faint-hearted or the faintly amused.
The mountains have long been a cradle of mystery, a stage for life's grimmest dramas to unfold with stark honesty against nature's brutal beauty. In the shadows of the Caucasus, the Dreamland of Mountains hotel stands like an ill-conceived dream—half tourist haven, half smuggler's den. Within its walls, lives unravel in a blend of chaos, laughter, and tragedy.
This narrative is about the absurd and the desperate, the moments when life's fragile veneer of normalcy cracks, and human nature, with all its contradictions, spills out. A missing fortune sparks paranoia; betrayals lurk behind every whispered word, and laughter echoes hollowly through corridors tainted by fear. In this liminal space, where survival depends on wit as much as will, the line between comedy and tragedy blurs beyond recognition.
Dancing with the Dead invites you to explore the collision of lives suspended between morality and madness, where even the darkest moments are tinged with surreal humor and the simplest acts of humanity can feel like rebellion.
Welcome to a world where laughter dances with tears, and every step could be your last.
M.M.
November 16, 2024
About Dancing with the Dead
This is not a story for the faint-hearted or the faintly amused.
The mountains have long been a cradle of mystery, a stage for life's grimmest dramas to unfold with stark honesty against nature's brutal beauty. In the shadows of the Caucasus, the Dreamland of Mountains hotel stands like an ill-conceived dream—half tourist haven, half smuggler's den. Within its walls, lives unravel in a blend of chaos, laughter, and tragedy.
This narrative is about the absurd and the desperate, the moments when life's fragile veneer of normalcy cracks, and human nature, with all its contradictions, spills out. A missing fortune sparks paranoia; betrayals lurk behind every whispered word, and laughter echoes hollowly through corridors tainted by fear. In this liminal space, where survival depends on wit as much as will, the line between comedy and tragedy blurs beyond recognition.
Dancing with the Dead invites you to explore the collision of lives suspended between morality and madness, where even the darkest moments are tinged with surreal humor and the simplest acts of humanity can feel like rebellion.
Welcome to a world where laughter dances with tears, and every step could be your last.
M.M.
November 16, 2024
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