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Arabesques: New Stories
Paperback
Series: Margellos World Republic of Letters
General FictionLiterary Fiction
Publisher Price: $18.00
ISBN13: 9780300284348
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: Feb 17 2026
Pages: 120
Weight: 0.25
Height: 0.50 Width: 5.00 Depth: 7.70
Language: English
From an acclaimed Ukrainian author, snapshots of a city haunted by war
The women, men, and children in Serhiy Zhadan's new collection of stories testify to the dignity of daily life in the war-battered Ukrainian city of Kharkiv. Through a series of powerful vignettes we witness the ordinary experiences of people in extraordinary times--weddings, love affairs, tense visits home from the battlefield, desperate deliveries of humanitarian aid.Highlighting the upheaval since the 2022 Russian invasion, characters from Zhadan's Mesopotamia and The Orphanage reappear, this time with entirely different concerns: evacuating an elderly woman after the bombardment of a residential area; finding a job for someone who returned from the front with significant disabilities; attending the funeral of a colleague who had led a combat unit on the front lines.
These stories, composed shortly before the author joined the Ukrainian armed forces, give voice to the vulnerability of those whose lives have been transformed by war, who have come to accept that death lurks around every corner, in every building, and on every square.
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