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The Cavemen Chronicle Norwegian Literature Series prefiguring the formal inventiveness ofThe bunker like caf in Tallinn known as "The Cave" is the epicenter of bohemian culture in Soviet era Estonia. The caf's regulars, the "Cavemen," escape the dreary reality above ground with vodka and high minded discussion in their private hideaway. Told from the perspective of a gossip columnist, the novel traces the lives of several of these misfits as they attempt to pursue careers as artists, writers, and politicians in pre and post perestroika