Oksana Lutsyshyna: Іван і Феба (Ivan and Phoebe)
The latest addition to my website is Oksana Lutsyshyna's Іван і Феба (Ivan and Phoebe). This novel primarily tells the story of Ivan but, to a lesser degree, of Phoebe,…
The latest addition to my website is Oksana Lutsyshyna's Іван і Феба (Ivan and Phoebe). This novel primarily tells the story of Ivan but, to a lesser degree, of Phoebe,…
Having just read twenty Ukrainian novels in a row does not really entitle me to make any major judgements about the country or its literature. Nevertheless I shall make a…
The latest addition to my website is Eugenia Kononenko's Російський сюжет (A Russian Story). This is the last in my Ukrainian marathon and, despite the title, certainly one that deals…
The latest addition to my website is Alexei Nikitin's Истеми (Y.T). In 1984 five students play a war game which involve inventing countries and transposing real historical characters to other…
The latest addition to my website is Marjana Gaponenko's Wer ist Martha? (Who is Martha?). Our hero is Luka Levadski. He is a ninety-six year old Ukrainian ornithologist. He has…
The latest addition to my website is Maria Matios's Солодка Даруся (Sweet Darusya). The novel is set among the Hutsul people in the Carpathians and is told in reverse chronological…
The latest addition to my website is Taras Prokhasko's НепрОсті (The Unsimple). This is a post-modern, magic realism novel set in the Carpathians. It is set primarily in the fairly…
The latest addition to my website is Zinaida Tulub's В степу безкраїм за Уралом (The Exile). This is novelised biography of the first exile of Ukraine's national poet Taras Shevchenko.…
The latest addition to my website is Yuri Andrukhovych's Московіада (The Moscoviad. Our hero is a Ukrainian poet called Otto Wilhelmovych von F. He has a two-year stipend to write…
The latest addition to my website is Oksana Zabuzhko's Польові дослідження з українського сексу (Fieldwork In Ukrainian Sex). Zabuzhko opens this novel all guns blazing and rarely lets up. She…