Peter Nasmyth in Tbilisi to Launch New Psychological Book

Peter Nasmyth - writer, traveler, publisher and a founder-member of the British-Georgian Society, is to present his new book on October 25 at the National Archives Exhibition Hall in Tbilisi, Georgia, a city and a country to which he has long been attached emotionally, as expressed in two of his previous works, ‘Georgia, in the Mountains of Poetry’ and ‘Walking in the Caucasus, Georgia.’ 

His new book, entitled ‘Who Am I Today?’ is introduced as a practical book of short stories, set in England, America, Georgia and elsewhere, generated over many years of travel before he settled on Georgia. Nasmyth says that only one of the short stories in his new book is true - ‘The Adventurer,’ set in Nepal and consisting of about 90 percent reportage, written in the early 1980s before he visited Georgia.

The remaining stories, like most fiction, are said to be based on true emotions rather than true events. Each is about a person confronting a difficult or fearful aspect of their life, often without knowing why, sometimes not even realizing it until afterwards.

The stories are unified by a set of cut-out playing cards – based on a personal set of slogans developed by the author over the years. The cards were written into the stories because he realized he’d been using a mental version of them all along. By providing those cards for the reader, the reader is invited into the psychological game played by the book’s characters. At the launch, Peter Nasmyth will tell us how.

WHERE: National Archives Exhibition Hall- 1 Vazha-Pshavela Avenue

WHEN: 25th October, 5.30-7.30pm

By Nino Gugunishvili