The God Maker question

I read a review of this translation of the Georgian writer Chiladze in the Times Literary Supplement--imagine my surprise to find it as a low-cost Kindle book. The story takes place in Colchis--home of Medea--now Georgia, with a touch of "magical realism books for young adults " rather than the pre-history of the Jason and Medea myth. The translation is beautiful (as I imagine the original Georgian is) and I've seen only very few typos (missing little words here and there). The medieval illustration is of Jason and Medea, but is the wrong period for the tone and style of the book, which is from a modern semi-fairy-tale point of view (open-eyed narrators of bizarre but personally felt events and relationships). The Jason and Medea "story" is but the first third of the book. The second section stays in the same location, with some of the same characters, but tracks another family of emotional cripples and misfits. One goes as a stonecutter to Crete (to help build Minos's palace at Knossos), but all sense of a real landscape disappears under the weight of larger-than-life, inarticulate anguishes careening about against a tan and grey sea light, in a sea without fish.Otar ChiladzeA Man Was Going Down the Road