Books set in Ukraine (13)
1.
A Matter of Death and Life by Andrey Kurkov EN
Rating: 3.5 4 Votes
UkraineDescription:
'Kurkov is hugely talented. Truly very funny' Time Out Marital troubles? Sick of life? Suicide the answer? Why not get yourself a contract killer? Nothing easier, provided you communicate only by phone and box number. You give him your photograph, specify when and where to find you, then sit back and prepare to die. Murdered, you will be of greater interest than ever you were in life. More to him than met the eye will be the judgement. A mysterious killing lives long in the popular memory. Our hero meticulously plans his own demise, except for one detail: what if he suddenly decides he wants t... continue
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Aleksandra by Lisa Weeda NL
Rating: 4 1 Vote
Country: Europe / 
Netherlands
Netherlands
Description:
Met verbluffend vertelplezier en met alle literaire stijlmiddelen die tot haar beschikking staan vertelt Lisa Weeda een uitzonderlijke familiegeschiedenis, die begint bij haar grootmoeder Aleksandra. In 1942 wordt zij vanuit Oekraïne gedeporteerd en in Duitsland in de oorlogsindustrie tewerkgesteld. Haar kleindochter Lisa reist later naar haar grootmoeders geboorteplaats en ontmoet, op de vleugels van haar verbeelding, haar overgrootvader Nikolaj, die al bijna driekwart eeuw op zijn dochter zit te wachten. Samen met hem gaat ze op zoek naar sporen van haar neef, die tijdens het recentelijk opg... continue
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Greetings from Novorossiya: Eyewitness to the War in Ukraine by Pawel Pieniazek EN
Poland5.
Grijze bijen by Andrej Jurʹevič Kurkov NL
0 Ratings
6.
Klotsvog by Margarita Khemlin EN
Rating: 4.5 2 Votes
Description:
Klotsvog is a novel about being Jewish in the Soviet Union and the historical trauma of World War II--and it's a novel about the petty dramas and demons of one strikingly vain woman. Maya Abramovna Klotsvog has had quite a life, and she wants you to know all about it. Selfish, garrulous, and thoroughly entertaining, she tells us where she came from, who she didn't get along with, and what became of all her husbands and lovers. In Klotsvog, Margarita Khemlin creates a first-person narrator who is both deeply self-absorbed and deeply compelling. From Maya's perspective, Khemlin unfurls a retelli... continue
7.
Sadivnyk z Ochakova by Andrij Kurkov EN
0 Ratings
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The Museum of Abandoned Secrets by Oksana Zabuzhko EN
0 Ratings
Description:
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.
9.
The Orphanage: A Novel by Serhiy Zhadan EN
Description:
"A Margellos World Republic of Letters Book."
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