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A stunning debut collection of fiction and creative nonfiction— irreverent and unglorified; loving and tender; uncomfortable and inconvenient—by a Ukrainian writer currently fighting for his country in Kyiv. Includes the celebrated title story "The Ukraine," which was published in the New Yorker in ... Read More about The Ukraine

Winner of the BBC Ukrainian Book of the Year Award Winner of the Usedom Literature Prize "The first novel originally written in Ukrainian to be published by a major U.S. trade house . . . the novel itself pushes back against despair, simply by virtue of existing . . . haunted and haunting." —Judith... Read More about Forgottenness: A Novel

Love in Defiance of Pain: Ukrainian Stories aims to bring the riches of contemporary Ukrainian literature-and of contemporary Ukraine, too--to the world. While Ukraine is under sustained attack, many in the West have marveled at the nation's strength in the face of a barbaric invasion. Who are the... Read More about Love in Defiance of Pain: Ukrainian Stories

In the savanna lands of Africa lives a lion cub who dreams of being a musician. But his father is against this because he expects the lion cub to become king of all the animals. And in order to become the king, he must learn how to growl menacingly, not how to play instruments and sing. Will this li... Read More about The Happiest Lion Cub