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The Orphanage - A Novel (Paperback)
Serhiy Zhadan; Translated by Reilly Costigan-Humes, Isaac Stackhouse Wheeler
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R415
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A devastating story of the struggle of civilians caught up in the
conflict in eastern Ukraine Chosen as one of "Six Books to Read for
Context on Ukraine" by the New York Times Selected by Publishers
Weekly as one of the "20 Best Books of 2021" "Powerful . . . For
those who want a glimpse of what life will be like in Ukraine for
years to come, The Orphanage offers a frightening glimpse."-Bill
Marx, Arts Fuse If every war needs its master chronicler, Ukraine
has Serhiy Zhadan, one of Europe's most promising novelists.
Recalling the brutal landscape of The Road and the wartime
storytelling of A Farewell to Arms, The Orphanage is a searing
novel that excavates the human collateral damage wrought by the
ongoing conflict in eastern Ukraine. When hostile soldiers invade a
neighboring city, Pasha, a thirty-five-year-old Ukrainian language
teacher, sets out for the orphanage where his nephew Sasha lives,
now in occupied territory. Venturing into combat zones, traversing
shifting borders, and forging uneasy alliances along the way, Pasha
realizes where his true loyalties lie in an increasingly desperate
fight to rescue Sasha and bring him home. Written with a raw
intensity, this is a deeply personal account of violence that will
be remembered as the definitive novel of the war in Ukraine.
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Voroshilovgrad (Paperback)
Serhiy Zhadan; Translated by Reilly Costigan-Humes, Isaac Wheeler
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R390
Discovery Miles 3 900
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"Trainspotting set against a grim post-Soviet backdrop." --
Newsweek World Literature Today's Recommended Summer Reads 2016 A
city-dwelling executive heads home to take over his brother's gas
station after his mysterious disappearance, but all he finds at
home are mysteries and ghosts. The bleak industrial landscape of
now-war-torn eastern Ukraine sets the stage for Voroshilovgrad, the
Soviet era name of the Ukranian city of Luhansk, mixing magical
realism and exhilarating road novel in poetic, powerful, and
expressive prose. Serhiy Zhadan, one of the key figureheads in
contemporary Ukrainian literature and the most famous poet in the
country, has become the voice of Ukraine's "Euro-Maidan" movement.
He lives in Kharkiv, Ukraine.
Brothers Anton and Tolik reunite at their family home to bury their
recently deceased mother. An otherwise natural ritual unfolds under
extraordinary circumstances: their house is on the front line of a
war ignited by Russian-backed separatists in eastern Ukraine.
Isolated without power or running water, the brothers’ best hope
for success and survival lies in the declared cease fire—the
harvest truce. But such hopes are swiftly dashed, as it becomes
apparent that the conflagration of war will not abate. With echoes
of Waiting for Godot, Serhiy Zhadan’s A Harvest Truce stages a
tragicomedy in which the commonplace experiences of death, birth,
and the cycles of life marked by the practices of growing and
harvesting food are rendered futile and farcical in the wake of the
indifferent juggernaut of war.
An introduction to an original poetic voice from eastern Ukraine
with deep roots in the unique cultural landscape of post-Soviet
devastation "Everyone can find something, if they only look
carefully," reads one of the memorable lines from this first
collection of poems in English by the world-renowned Ukrainian
author Serhiy Zhadan. These robust and accessible narrative poems
feature gutsy portraits of life on wartorn and poverty-ravaged
streets, where children tally the number of local deaths, where
mothers live with low expectations, and where romance lives like a
remote memory. In the tradition of Tom Waits, Charles Bukowski, and
William S. Burroughs, Zhadan creates a new poetics of loss, a daily
crusade of testimonial, a final witness of abandoned lives in a
claustrophobic universe where "every year there's less and less
air." Yet despite the grimness of these portraits, Zhadan's poems
are familiar and enchanting, lit by the magic of everyday detail,
leaving readers with a sense of hope, knowing that the will of a
people "will never let it be / like it was before."
A searing testament to poetry’s power to define and defy
injustice, from iconic writer-activist Serhiy Zhadan Since
the Russian invasion of Crimea in 2014, the Ukrainian poet Serhiy
Zhadan has brought international attention to his country’s
struggle through his unflinching poetry of witness. In this searing
testament to poetry’s power to define and defy injustice, Zhadan
honors the memory of the lost and addresses the living, inviting us
to consider what language can offer to a country threatened with
extinction. Young lovers, marginalized outsiders, and ordinary
citizens pulse with life in a composite portrait of a people newly
unified by extremity. Even in the midst of enemy fire, Zhadan’s
lyrical monuments beat with a subterranean thrum of hope.
With a foreword by the poet Ilya Kaminsky, this selection of
Zhadan’s poetry, forged entirely in wartime, is an homage to the
Ukrainian people, a forceful reckoning with the violence of the
past and present, and an act of artistic imagination that breaks
with trauma and charts a new future for Ukraine.
A New Orthography by Serhiy Zhadan is the fifth volume in Lost
Horse Press’s Contemporary Ukrainian Poetry Series. In these
poems, the poet focuses on daily life during the Russo-Ukrainian
war, rendering intimate portraits of the country’s residents as
they respond to crisis. Zhadan revives and revises the role of the
nineteenth-century Romantic bard, one who portrays his community
with clarity, preserving its most precious aspects and darkest
nuances. The poems investigate questions of home, exile, solitude,
love, and religious faith, making vivid the experiences of
noncombatants, refugees, soldiers, and veterans. This collection
will be of interest to those who study how poetry observes and
mirrors the shifts within a country during wartime, and it offers
solace as well.
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Mesopotamia (Paperback)
Serhiy Zhadan; Translated by Reilly Costigan-Humes, Wanda Phipps, Virlana Tkacz, Isaac Stackhouse Wheeler
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R370
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A unique work of fiction from the troubled streets of Ukraine, giving invaluable testimony to the new history unfolding in the nation’s post-independence years
This captivating book is Serhiy Zhadan’s ode to Kharkiv, the traditionally Russian-speaking city in Eastern Ukraine where he makes his home. A leader among Ukrainian post†‘independence authors, Zhadan employs both prose and poetry to address the disillusionment, complications, and complexities that have marked Ukrainian life in the decades following the Soviet Union’s collapse. His novel provides an extraordinary depiction of the lives of working-class Ukrainians struggling against an implacable fate: the road forward seems blocked at every turn by demagogic forces and remnants of the Russian past. Zhadan’s nine interconnected stories and accompanying poems are set in a city both representative and unusual, and his characters are simultaneously familiar and strange. Following a kind of magical-realist logic, his stories expose the grit and burden of stalled lives, the universal desire for intimacy, and a wistful realization of the off-kilter and even perverse nature of love.
In 1993, tragic turbulence takes over Ukraine in the post-communist
spin-off. As if in somnambulism, Soviet war veterans and upstart
businessmen listen to an American preacher of whose type there were
plenty at the time in the post-Soviet territory. In Kharkiv, the
young communist headquarters is now an advertising agency, and a
youth radio station brings Western music, with Depeche Mode in the
lead, into homes of ordinary people. In the middle of this craze
three friends, an anti-Semitic Jew Dogg Pavlov, an unfortunate
entrepreneur Vasia the Communist and the narrator Zhadan, nineteen
years of age and unemployed, seek to find their old pal Sasha
Carburetor to tell him that his step-father shot himself dead.
Characters confront elements of their reality, and, tainted with
traumatic survival fever, embark on a sad, dramatic and a bit
grotesque adventure.
From Ukraine’s leading writer-activist comes an intimate account
of resistance and survival in the earliest months of the
Russian-Ukrainian war “A vivid, in-the-trenches report
from a Ukrainian city and its ‘injured, yet unbreakable’
citizens.”—Kirkus Reviews When Russia invaded Ukraine
on February 24, 2022, Serhiy Zhadan took to social media to
coordinate a network of resistance workers and send messages of
courage to his fellow Ukrainians. What began as a local organizing
effort exploded onto the international stage as readers around the
globe looked to Zhadan as a key eyewitness documenting Russian
atrocities. In this powerful record of the war’s
harrowing first four months, Zhadan works day and night in Kharkiv
to evacuate children and the elderly from suburbs that have come
under fire. He sends lists of life-saving medications to the West
in the hopes of procuring them for civilians, coordinates food
deliveries, collects money for military equipment, and organizes
concerts. He shares photographs of the open sky—grateful for
every pause in the shelling—and captures images of beloved
institutions reduced to rubble. We’ll restore everything. We’ll
rebuild everything, he writes. As the days pass, the city
empties. Friends are killed. And when images of the Bucha massacre
are released, Zhadan’s own voice falters: I’m speechless. Hang
in there, my friends. Tomorrow, we’ll wake up one day closer to
our victory. An intimate work of witness literature, this book is
at once the testimony of one man entering a new reality and the
story of a society fighting for the right to exist.
In 1993, tragic turbulence takes over Ukraine in the post-communist
spin-off. As if in somnambulism, Soviet war veterans and upstart
businessmen listen to an American preacher of whose type there were
plenty at the time in the post-Soviet territory. In Kharkiv, the
young communist headquarters is now an advertising agency, and a
youth radio station brings Western music, with Depeche Mode in the
lead, into homes of ordinary people. In the middle of this craze
three friends, an anti-Semitic Jew Dogg Pavlov, an unfortunate
entrepreneur Vasia the Communist and the narrator Zhadan, nineteen
years of age and unemployed, seek to find their old pal Sasha
Carburetor to tell him that his step-father shot himself dead.
Characters confront elements of their reality, and, tainted with
traumatic survival fever, embark on a sad, dramatic and a bit
grotesque adventure.
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