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Winner of the New York Public Library Young Lions Fiction Award
Best Book of the Year - New York Public Library, Cosmopolitan,
Independent Book Review 'Pickhart's story is powerful, boldly
imaginative, rich in history and feeling, charged with events that
have occurred since it was written - and which summon up the same
force of the history that compelled an American author to write
about this "foreign land".' The Times 2014 Kyiv, Ukraine. The city
is poised on a knife-edge as tensions mount around a corrupt
government's increasing ties to Russia. As protests erupt across
the city, the fates of four individuals come together. Katya is a
Ukrainian-American doctor stationed at a makeshift medical clinic
treating wounded protesters; Misha is an engineer originally from
Pripyat, near Chernobyl, grieving the death of his wife; Slava is a
fiery young activist whose past hardships steel her determination;
Aleksandr Ivanovich, a former KGB agent, climbs atop a burned-out
bus at Independence Square and plays the piano. In this dazzling,
inventive debut novel - set during the 'Revolution of Dignity' -
Kalani Pickhart weaves together a rich tapestry of voices to create
a moving story about beauty, love and survival during tumultuous
times.
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.
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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