Books from Ukraine
63 popular ukrainian books
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The target of the Read Around The World Challenge is to read at least one book written by an author from each and every country in the world.
All books that are listed here as part of the "Read Around Europe Challenge" were written by authors from Ukraine.
Find a great book for the next part of your reading journey around the world from this book list. The following popular books have been recommended so far.
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The Hard Parts : A Memoir of Courage and Triumph by Oksana Masters EN
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“A gut-wrenching, wildly inspiring story about overcoming the most daunting obstacles through steely tenacity, sheer will, and a great big dose of motherly love.” —Jeannette Walls, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Glass Castle An inspirational and powerful memoir from the United States’s most decorated winter Paralympic or Olympic athlete, The Hard Parts is Oksana Masters’s gripping account of overcoming extraordinary Chernobyl disaster–caused physical challenges to create a life that challenges everyone to push through what is holding them back. Oksana Masters was born in Ukraine—i... continue
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The Heart of a Dog by Mikhail Bulgakov EN
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WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY ANDREY KURKOV A rich, successful Moscow professor befriends a stray dog and attempts a scientific first by transplanting into it the testicles and pituitary gland of a recently deceased man. A distinctly worryingly human animal is now on the loose, and the professor's hitherto respectable life becomes a nightmare beyond endurance. An absurd and superbly comic story, this classic novel can also be read as a fierce parable of the Russian Revolution.
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The Hour of the Star by Clarice Lispector EN
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The Hour of the Star, Clarice Lispector's consummate final novel, may well be her masterpiece.
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The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov EN
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In an updated version of the Faust story, the devil and his minions pay 1920's Moscow a visit and wreak havoc on the artistic community. Bulgakov's satire was banned in Russia by Stalin, and only published in England 27 years after the author's death.
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The Museum of Abandoned Secrets by Oksana Zabuzhko EN
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In 2003, television journalist Daryna Goshchynska unearths a worn photograph of Olena Dovgan, a member of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army killed in 1947 by Stalin's secret police, and unwittingly opens a door to the abandoned secrets of three disparate women.
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The Night Reporter : A 1938 Lviv Murder Mystery by Yuri Vynnychuk EN
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The events of the novel The Night Reporter take place in Lviv in 1938. Journalist Marko Krylovych, nicknamed the "night reporter" takes on the investigation of the murder of a candidate for president of the city government.
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The Nose by Nikolaĭ Vasilʹevich Gogolʹ EN
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Collegiate Assessor Kovalyov awakens to discover that his nose is missing, leaving a smooth, flat patch of skin in its place. He finds and confronts his nose in the Kazan Cathedral, but from its clothing it is apparent that the nose has acquired a higher rank in the civil service than he and refuses to return to his face. The Art of the Novella Series: Too short to be a novel, too long to be a short story, the novella is generally unrecognised by academics and publishers but beloved and practiced by literature's greatest writers. This series celebrates the art form.
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The Orphanage: A Novel by Serhiy Zhadan EN
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"A Margellos World Republic of Letters Book."
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The Radetzky March by Joseph Roth EN
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Written through the stories of three generations of the Trotta family, The Radetzky March is a meditation on the Austro-Hungarian Empire and its eventual collapse. This is Joseph Roth's most famous and most acclaimed novel.
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The Unwomanly Face of War by Svetlana Alexievich EN
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The long-awaited translation of the classic oral history of Soviet women's experiences in the Second World War - from the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature Bringing together dozens of voices in her distinctive style, The Unwomanly Face of War is Svetlana Alexievich's collection of stories from Soviet women who lived through the Second World War: on the front lines, on the home front, and in occupied territories. As Alexievich gives voice to women who are absent from official narratives - captains, sergeants, nurses, snipers, pilots - she shows us a new version of the war we're so familia... continue