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The Ukraine

The Ukraine

Paperback

General Fiction

Publisher Price: $18.95

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
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.

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