Valerian Pidmohylny: Місто (The City)
The latest addition to my website is Valerian Pidmohylny's Місто (The City). This is an appropriate work to start off my Ukrainian reading marathon, in the light of current events,…
Ukrainian literature
Every year at about this time I focus on books from just one country. Last year I had a country in mind and then we decided to go to Norway…
Markiyan Kamysh: Оформляндія або прогулянка в Зону (Stalking the Atomic City)
The latest addition to my website is Markiyan Kamysh's Оформляндія або прогулянка в Зону (Stalking the Atomic City). Markiyan Kamysh is a stalker, which means he enters Chernobyl illegally and…
Eugene Vodolazkin: Брисбен (Brisbane)
The latest addition to my website is Eugene Vodolazkin's Брисбен (Brisbane). The story is told in alternating chapters, the first telling of the early life of our hero Gleb Yanovsky,…
Modern Ukrainian fiction in English
Ukrainian literature did not start with the breakup of the Soviet Union though novelists writing in Ukrainian certainly came to the fore post-the Soviet Union. However before looking at the…
Andrey Kurkov: Серые пчелы (Grey Bees)
The latest addition to my website is Andrey Kurkov's Серые пчелы (Grey Bees). This a superb novel from Kurkov about a beekeeper, Sergeyich, who lives in a small village in…
Andrey Kurkov: Смерть постороннего (Death and the Penguin)
The latest addition to my website is Andrey Kurkov's Смерть постороннего (Death and the Penguin). Yes, it is about a penguin but the penguin is both Viktor's quirky pet but…
Serhiy Zhadan: Ворошиловград (Voroshilovgrad)
The latest addition to my website is Serhiy Zhadan's Ворошиловград (Voroshilovgrad). This novel is set in Eastern Ukraine but not in Voroshilovgrad which isn't called Voroshilovgrad any more. Our hero…
Andriy Kokotiukha: Адвокат iз Личакiвської (The Lawyer from Lychakiv Street)
The latest addition to my website is Andriy Kokotiukha's Адвокат iз Личакiвської (The Lawyer from Lychakiv Street). It is set in 1908, primarily in Lviv, now in Ukraine but then…
Artem Chekh: Точка нуль (Absolute Zero)
The latest addition to my website is Artem Chekh's Точка нуль (Absolute Zero). This is an account of Chekh's time serving in the Ukrainian army during the War in Donbass…