Theodore Odrach: Вошадь (Wave of Terror)
The latest addition to my website is Theodore Odrach's Вошадь (Wave of Terror). Odrach fled Ukraine and moved to Canada where he wrote this book, his only novel translated into…
The latest addition to my website is Theodore Odrach's Вошадь (Wave of Terror). Odrach fled Ukraine and moved to Canada where he wrote this book, his only novel translated into…
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,…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…