[2] As a result, Fazil and his brother Feredun and his sister Giuli were raised by his mother's Abkhazian family.

It is written from the point of view of a young newspaperman who returns to his native Abkhazia, joins the staff of a local newspaper, and is caught up in the publicity campaign for a newly produced farm animal, a cross between a goat and a West Caucasian tur (Capra caucasica); a "remarkable satire of Lysenko's genetics and Khrushchev's agricultural campaigns, it was harshly criticized for showing the Soviet Union in a bad light.

"[8][9] He is probably best known in the English speaking world for Sandro of Chegem, a picaresque novel that recounts life in a fictional Abkhaz village from the early years of the 20th century until the 1970s, which evoked praise for the author as "an Abkhazian Mark Twain.

[13] On 3 September 2011, a statue of Iskander's literary character Chik was unveiled on Sukhumi's Muhajir Quay.

In 2011 the couple published a book of poems entitled Snow and Grapes to celebrate their golden wedding anniversary.

(The Goatibex Constellation) „all serious Russian and European literature is an endless commentary on the gospel.“ („Reflections of a Writer“ by Fazil Iskander) [19] In 2009, Bank of Abkhazia issued a commemorative silver coin from the series "Outstanding Personalities of Abkhazia", dedicated to Fazil Iskander denomination of 10 apsaras.