Winner of the New York Public Library Young Lions Award Best Book
of the Year -New York Public Library, Cosmopolitan, Independent
Book Review "I tore through I Will Die in a Foreign Land... nothing
has given me such a profound impression of what Ukrainians have
endured as this intensely moving novel." Ron Charles, Washington
Post In 1913, a Russian ballet incited a riot in Paris at the new
Theatre de Champs-Elysees. "Only a Russian could do that," says
Aleksandr Ivanovich. "Only a Russian could make the whole world go
mad." A century later, in November 2013, thousands of Ukrainian
citizens gathered at Independence Square (Euromaidan) in Kyiv to
protest then-President Yanukovych's failure to sign a referendum
with the European Union, opting instead to forge a closer alliance
with President Vladimir Putin and Russia. The peaceful protests
turned violent when military police shot live ammunition into the
crowd, killing over a hundred civilians. I Will Die in a Foreign
Land is a novel that follows four individuals over the course of a
volatile Ukrainian winter, as their lives are changed forever by
the Euromaidan protests. Katya is a Ukrainian-American doctor
stationed at a makeshift medical clinic in St. Michael's Monastery;
Misha is an engineer originally from Pripyat, near Chernobyl, who
has lived in Kyiv since his wife's death; Slava is a fiery young
activist whose past hardships steel her determination in the face
of persecution; and Aleksandr Ivanovich, a former KGB agent, climbs
atop a burned-out police bus at Independence Square and plays the
piano. As Katya, Misha, Slava, and Aleksandr's lives become
intertwined, they each seek out love, redemption and meaning during
a tumultuous and violent period. In this dazzling debut novel,
Kalani Pickhart blends narrative, folklore, journalism and Slavic
history to create a moving story of beauty and love in a time of
terror, I Will Die in a Foreign Land is an ambitious, intimate, and
haunting portrait of human perseverance and the will to survive.
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