is a contemporary adaptation of Mats Wahl’s acclaimed 1993 novel. Set in Stockholm in 2021, it follows the lives of two teenagers,

1. Introduction

The book is filled with Swedish gang slang, racist epithets, and informal speech patterns. Georgian has its own rich tradition of insult and urban jargon (especially from Tbilisi’s underground), but matching the tone required careful negotiation. For example, the Swedish term skinnskalle (skinhead) became ტყავისთავა (tqavistava), a neologism that Georgian readers immediately grasp as menacing.

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