Serhiy Zhadan
1) Depeche Mode
Author
Language
English
Description
A poet and novelist whose work has been variously compared to Rimbaud, Charles Bukowski and Irvine Welsh, Serhiy Zhadan's first novel Depeche Mode depicts Ukrainian youth during the turbulent 1990s. Described by the author as "a book about real male comradeship," the novel follows the unemployed narrator and his friends, Jewish anti-Semite Dogg Pavlov and Vasia the Communist, on their adventures around Kharkiv and beyond.
Against a background of...
Author
Publisher
Deep Vellum Publishing
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The power source for Zhadan's writing is in its linguistic passion."—Die Zeit
"One of the most important creative forces in modern Ukrainian alternative culture."—KulturSpiegel
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
...Author
Publisher
Yale University Press
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
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Description
From Ukraineâs leading writer-activist comes an intimate account of resistance and survival in the earliest months of the Russian-Ukrainian war
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âA vivid, in-the-trenches report from a Ukrainian city and its âinjured, yet unbreakableâ citizens.ââKirkus Reviews
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When Russia invaded Ukraine on February 24, 2022, Serhiy Zhadan took to social media to coordinate a network of resistance...
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âA vivid, in-the-trenches report from a Ukrainian city and its âinjured, yet unbreakableâ citizens.ââKirkus Reviews
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When Russia invaded Ukraine on February 24, 2022, Serhiy Zhadan took to social media to coordinate a network of resistance...
Author
Language
English
Description
"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."--Publisher.
