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- Location(s): Kyiv, St Petersburg (Leningrad)
- Genre(s): Fiction, In Translation
- Era(s): 20th Century
For fans of Dostoyevsky, Tolstoy, and Umberto Eco Vodolazkin’s new novel Brisbane is “a sophisticated and frequently moving study in dissonance, dedicated to pointing out contrasts between art and life, beauty and decay, intention and outcome. And, yes, between Ukraine and...
- Location(s): Ukraine, Russia, United States (USA)
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): 1918 - 1970s
Ukraine, 1941. War has ripped Katya’s country and heart in two. When her first love and the father of her child, a young Hungarian soldier, is killed in battle she thinks her heart couldn’t break any more. But when...
- Location(s): Lviv
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
A hugely entertaining romp through the beautiful city of Lviv, by the author of Death and the Penguin and Grey Bees, now reporting widely on the Russian invasion of Ukraine, his home country. Strange things are afoot in the...
- 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...
The Child Of Ukraine (formerly published as “Motherland”)
- Location(s): Ukraine, Austria, Germany, United States (USA)
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): 1941 - Present Day
Ukraine, 1940. She cups her daughter’s face with her trembling hands, imprinting it on her mind. ‘I love you. Be brave,’ she whispers through her tears, her heart breaking into a thousand pieces. Sending her child away is the...
- Location(s): Helsinki, Ukraine
- Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
- Era(s): 2016
‘An intricate, textured slow-burner that paints a vivid picture of a post-Soviet state where gangsters rule and the exploitation of the female body is big business’ Guardian Helsinki, 2016. Olenka sits on a bench, watching a family play in...
- Location(s): Ukraine, United States (USA)
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction, Thriller
- Era(s): WW2
In the snowbound city of Kiev, aspiring historian Mila Pavlichenko’s life revolves around her young son – until Hitler’s invasion of Russia changes everything. Suddenly, she and her friends must take up arms to save their country from the...