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- Location(s): Donbas
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary looking back
The extraordinary new novel by the author of Untraceable. A sealed shaft in a Donbas coal mine contains unimaginable horror: layer upon layer of human bodies, the victims of Red and White terror during the Revolution, of Stalin’s purges,...
- Location(s): Ukraine
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): World War II
From the author of the #1 bestseller Beneath a Scarlet Sky comes a new historical novel inspired by one family’s incredible story of daring, survival, and triumph. In late March 1944, as Stalin’s forces push into Ukraine, young Emil...
- Location(s): Ukraine, Moscow, Russia
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1903-1920
The Little Russian spotlights an exciting new and assured voice in historical fiction. The novel tells the story of Berta Alshonsky, who revels in childhood memories of her time spent with a wealthy family in Moscow––a life filled with...
- Location(s): Pripyat/Chernobyl
- Genre(s): Young Adult
- Era(s): 1986
One April night, people living near Chernobyl see a bright light in the sky…Everyone is told to move out of the forbidden zone around the destroyed nuclear reactor, but two stubborn old ladies, Anna and Klara, refuse to leave....
- Location(s): Ukraine
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): WW2
Summer 1941. War rages in Europe. The Germans march towards Ukraine. Halya, Liliya and Vika are no strangers to sorrow. They lost family during the Holodomor, loved ones in Stalin’s purges, and war looms once more on the horizon....
- Location(s): Kyiv
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): early 21st century
Read this eccentric epic from the author of cult classic Death and the Penguin Semyon is disturbed. He has woken up in the living room with blood on his shirt, an angry wife and no idea where he was...
- Location(s): Kyiv
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
A devastating story of the struggle of civilians caught up in the conflict in eastern Ukraine If every war needs its master chronicler, Ukraine has Serhiy Zhadan, one of Europe’s most promising novelists. Recalling the brutal landscape of The...
- Location(s): Ukraine
- Genre(s): Fiction, In Translation
- Era(s): 2013
A sharp, engaging satire that delves into Ukraine’s history. Moscow, 2013. Bunin, the Ukrainian President, has joined other heads of state in an open air swimming pool to drink vodka and celebrate with Putin. During his rise to power...
- Location(s): Europe, Ukraine
- Genre(s): Nonfiction
- Era(s): Modern looking back to WW2
As Governor of Galicia, SS Brigadeführer Otto Freiherr von Wächter presided over an authority on whose territory hundreds of thousands of Jews and Poles were killed, including the family of the author’s grandfather. By the time the war ended...
- Location(s): Ukraine
- Genre(s): Fiction, In Translation, Nonfiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
The Ukraine is a collection of twenty-six 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...
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