Results for "Zhadan, Serhiy"

A searing testament to poetry’s power to define and defy injustice, from iconic writer-activist Serhiy Zhadan   Finalist for the PEN America Literary Award for Poetry in Translation  “Reading these words now is enough to make one’s breath catch. [Ukraine’s western partners] do not see the... Read More about How Fire Descends: New and Selected Poems (The Margellos World Republic of Letters)

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 g... Read More about The Orphanage: A Novel (The Margellos World Republic of Letters)

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 Ukrain... Read More about Sky Above Kharkiv: Dispatches from the Ukrainian Front (The Margellos World Republic of Letters)

"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 ind... Read More about Voroshilovgrad