Reading Ukraine: Fiction & Nonfiction
History, memoir and fiction that explore the past, present and future of an embattled land and people, their gradual, halting emergence of Ukrainian national identity and solidarity, and the deep roots of the current conflict in Ukraine.
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A Boy in Winter
A spare, visceral novel set in a small Ukrainian town that is overrun by the SS in 1941, where the lives of its residents become intertwined.
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Life Went on Anyway
Timely collection of disarming, disillusioned stories by the Sakharov Peace Prize-winning Ukrainian film director whose political imprisonment in Russia since 2014 is an international cause celebre.
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Stolen Girl
In this book for young readers, a Ukrainian girl struggles to feel safe in her adopted home as she pieces together her early childhood with a Nazi family, in a follow up to Skrypuch's other historical novels, Making Bombs for Hitler and The War Below.
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In this breathtaking short story collection, Oksana Zabuzhko, Ukraine’s leading public intellectual, is called upon to make sense of the unthinkable reality of our times, turning the concept of truth over in her hands like a beautifully crafted pair of gloves.
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Mesopotamia
A unique and indelible novel from the troubled streets of Ukraine, giving invaluable testimony to the new history unfolding in the nations post-independence years.
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The Orphanage
When hostile soldiers invade a neighboring city, Pasha, a thirty-five-year-old Ukrainian language teacher, sets out for the orphanage where his nephew Sasha lives, now in occupied territory.
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Atlantis
In 2025, Eastern Ukraine is a walled desert unsuitable for human habitation. Sergiy, a former soldier having trouble adapting to his new reality, meets Katya while she's on a humanitarian mission, and together they try returning to some sort of normal life where they're allowed to fall in love again.
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