Sandro iz Chegema (Russian: Сандро из Чегема), known in English as Sandro of Chegem or The Gospel According to Sandro, is a picaresque novel (or a parody thereof) by Abkhaz author Fazil Iskander, written in Russian and first published in the west in 1979-1981. The book, according to Amy Tikkanen, is "an unfinished collection of anecdotes loosely based on the often comic life of the Abkhazian character Uncle Sandro. It chronicles the collision of Soviet values with Abkhazian patriarchal village life." Source: Wikipedia (en)