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Zhadan writes about eastern Ukraine through civilians and their daily obligations. His prose shows how language and responsibility acquire new meanings amid war. For contrast, choose Russian-language Kurkov’s grotesque novels or Andrukhovych’s carnivalesque prose. Zabuzhko connects women’s experience with political and family memory. Classic works by Lesia Ukrainka and Kobylianska broaden the selection through poetic drama and a reworking of folk song.
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A teacher crosses war-torn Donbas to bring his nephew home from a boarding institution.
Original title: Інтернат
Yale University Press · 2021
Translated by Reilly Costigan-Humes i Isaac Stackhouse Wheeler
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Stories and poems form a many-voiced portrait of Kharkiv and its inhabitants’ loves and daily struggles.
Original title: Месопотамія
Yale University Press · 2018
Translated by Reilly Costigan-Humes, Wanda Phipps, Virlana Tkacz i Isaac Stackhouse Wheeler
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A Ukrainian poet’s disappearance in Venice emerges through conflicting documents, testimonies and masks.
Original title: Перверзія
An obituary writer and his penguin become entangled in a dark criminal scheme in Kyiv.
Original title: Смерть постороннего
A beekeeper in Donbas’s wartime grey zone travels with his hives in search of peace.
Original title: Серые пчёлы
A poet’s monologue connects a painful relationship, female experience and Ukrainian identity.
Original title: Польові дослідження з українського сексу
A journalist’s investigation connects contemporary Kyiv with earlier generations’ wartime secrets.
Original title: Музей покинутих секретів
A poetic drama follows the love of Lukash and the forest being Mavka and the conflict between humanity and nature.
Original title: Лісова пісня
A novel develops a folk-song motif about a young man torn between two women.
Original title: В неділю рано зілля копала
Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies Press
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Four poets arrive at a carnivalesque festival exposing the contradictions of a newly independent Ukraine.
Original title: Рекреації
After his brother disappears, Herman returns to eastern Ukraine to defend a gas station and rediscover his attachments.
A satire follows a Ukrainian president whose political deals and private troubles intertwine with anxiety over his transplanted heart.
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