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Papillon is sent back to the penal colony, this time to the infamous (Île du Diable). This island is reserved for the most dangerous escape risks or political prisoners. It is a rock surrounded by treacherous currents and sharks.

In the crumbling backstreets of Tbilisi’s old town, where grapevines clawed at wrought-iron balconies and the sulfur scent of the baths hung in the air, lived an old manuscript restorer named Davit. His hands were stained with ochre and rust, his eyes failing from a lifetime of peering at 11th-century Asomtavruli script. He had one obsession: the Papillon Qartulad — a legendary illuminated manuscript no living soul had seen. papillon qartulad

He had found the lost manuscript. But more than that: he had learned that a language does not die when its books burn. It flies. And if you listen very carefully in the old streets of Tbilisi, on a still night, you can still hear the whisper of the Papillon Qartulad —the butterfly in Georgian—waking the alphabet one wingbeat at a time. Papillon is sent back to the penal colony,