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ISBN10: 1644212951
ISBN13: 9781644212950
Publisher: Seven Stories Press
Published: Jan 30 2024
Pages: 272
Weight: 0.61
Height: 0.90 Width: 5.40 Depth: 8.30
Language: English
ISBN13: 9781644212950
Publisher: Seven Stories Press
Published: Jan 30 2024
Pages: 272
Weight: 0.61
Height: 0.90 Width: 5.40 Depth: 8.30
Language: English
A stunning debut collection of fiction and creative nonfiction-- irreverent and unglorified; loving and tender; uncomfortable and inconvenient--by a Ukrainian writer currently fighting for his country in Kyiv. Includes the celebrated title story The Ukraine, which was published in the New Yorker in 2022. The Ukraine is a collection of 26 pieces that deliberately blur the line between nonfiction and fiction, conjuring the essence of a beloved country through its tastes, smells, and sounds, its small towns and big cities, its people and their compassion and indifference, simplicities and complications.
- In the title story, Chapeye facetiously plays with the English misuse of the article the in reference to Ukraine, capturing a country as perceived from the outside, by foreigners. That pseudo-kitsch, often historically shallow, and not-quite-real Ukraine resonates because of its highly engaging and brutally candid snapshots of ordinary lives and typical places.
- In One Soul per Home an elderly woman laments that the men are dying and the young are leaving for the cities, changing the face of her small town;
- In The Unscrupulous Spirit of the Provinces, a couple of unspecified gender get stoned and go to church; and in False Premises, a man romanticizes his younger years working for a Soviet fishing fleet only to reconstruct his nostalgia in the face of Putin's Russia.
The Ukraine conveys to readers a place that Chapeye and his countrymen are currently fighting for with their lives. The book features a preface by the author, which he composed on his phone from the front lines.
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