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Zelensky - A Biography
Serhii Rudenko; Translated by Michael M. Naydan, Alla Perminova
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R319
Discovery Miles 3 190
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Ships in 12 - 17 working days
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Three years after the political novice Volodymyr Zelensky was
elected to Ukraine’s highest office, he found himself catapulted
into the role of war-time leader. The former comedian has
become the public face of his country’s courageous and bloody
struggle against a brutal invasion. Zelensky’s
extraordinary leadership in the face of Russia’s aggression is an
inspiration to everyone who stands opposed to the appalling
violence unleashed on Ukraine.  This book – the
first biography of Zelensky published in English – tells his
astonishing story. It has been revised and updated for this
new paperback edition.
Nina accidentally tramples on the flowers in her garden, but with
the help of all her friends and a trip to the local florist, she
plants a garden of dolphins (delphiniums). A heart-warming,
dual-language story about friendship and gardening! Text in both
English and Ukrainian for readers of three years an upwards.
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Perverzion (Paperback)
Yuri Andrukhovych; Translated by Michael M. Naydan
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R1,078
Discovery Miles 10 780
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Ships in 12 - 17 working days
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The tale of a poet's tragicomic last days in Venice
What was the fate of Stanislav Perfetsky -- poet, provocateur,
and hero of Ukrainian underground culture? Certain evidence points
to suicide. But some whisper murder. Some suggest the grand Eastern
European tradition of coerced suicide. It may be related to the
religious cult ceremony he unluckily happened upon in Munich. . .
or that job as a dancer in a strip club for older women.
Or, then again, it may not.
Perverzion reconstructs Perfetsky's final days using a mishmash
of relics, from official documents to recorded interviews to scraps
of paper. Perfetsky, the personification of the Ukrainian artistic
superman (for example, he plays countless musical instruments so
well he collaborated with Elton John during the star's secret
sojourn in Ukraine), is bound for Venice to participate in a
seminar to save the world from its absurdity. On the way he becomes
a Ukrainian Orpheus, descending into the sophisticated decadence of
the West, navigating through surrealistic adventures and no less
surrealistic seminar topics as he charges head up (and pants down)
toward his fate.
A work of sly, subversive humor and fantastic wordplay,
Perverzion is a look into the new Ukraine's post-Soviet literary
culture by one of the country's foremost contemporary writers.
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