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    612-822-4611

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Rock, Paper, Grenade

Rock, Paper, Grenade

Chekh, Artem
Jennings, Olena
Rosenblum, Oksana

Paperback

General FictionLiterary Fiction

Publisher Price: $21.95

ISBN10: 164421427X
ISBN13: 9781644214275
Publisher: Seven Stories Press
Published: Apr 29 2025
Pages: 256
Weight: 0.50
Height: 0.80 Width: 5.40 Depth: 8.20
Language: English
Ukrainian writer and military serviceman Artem Chekh's book was the winner of the 2021 BBC News Ukraine Book of the Year Award and is a gritty and bald bildungsroman, a lilting picaresque of a life lived in the shadow of someone else's war.

When Tymofiy is five years old, his small family in Cherkasy, Ukraine grows by one. Not with the birth of a baby sister or brother, but with the appearance of Felix--mentor and tormentor, enemy and friend--Tymofiy's grandmother's sometime-boyfriend. Who are you? Felix screams in the depths of a confused and drunken rage at all who cross his path, his memories of the Soviet-Afghan war clouding his eyes and senses. Who are you? Tymofiy asks himself as he drifts through the streets of his hometown, searching for love and protection, for a better, happier way of life.

A gritty, realist depiction of Ukraine and the post Soviet world, this book offers an affecting yet honest look into the life of someone suffering from PTSD. It is a story of growing up without much hope for a better future, and yet intense moments of connection and kindness persist. Just when things begin to seem insurmountably dark, a friendship begins, a kind word is said, or a hand reaches out and opens the curtains, letting in a little light.

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