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Lucky Breaks
Out of the impoverished coal regions of Ukraine known as the Donbass, where Russian secret military intervention...
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Out of the impoverished coal regions of Ukraine known as the Donbass, where Russian secret military intervention coexists with banditry and insurgency, the women of Yevgenia Belorusets's captivating collection of stories emerge from the ruins of a war, still being waged on and off, ever since the 2014 Revolution of Dignity. Through a series of unexpected encounters, we are pulled into the ordinary lives of these anonymous women: a florist, a cosmetologist, card players, readers of horoscopes, the unemployed, and a witch who catches newborns with a mitt. One refugee tries unsuccessfully to leave her broken umbrella behind as if it were a sick relative; a private caregiver in a disputed zone saves her elderly charge from the angel of death; a woman sits down on International Women's Day and can no longer stand up; a soldier decides to marry war. Belorusets threads these tales of ebullient survival with a mix of humor, verisimilitude, the undramatic, and a profound Gogolian irony. She also weaves in twenty-three photographs that, in lyrical and historical counterpoint, form their own remarkable visual narrative.
Author: Yevgenia Belorusets
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
Published: 03/01/2022
Pages: 112
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.25lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.10w x 0.50d
ISBN: 9780811229845
Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 01/03/2022
Kirkus Reviews 02/01/2022
About the Author
Belorusets, Yevgenia: - Yevgenia Belorusets is a Ukrainian writer, journalist, artist, and photographer who lives between Kyiv and Berlin. Her photographic work calls attention to the more vulnerable sections of Ukrainian society--queer families, out-of-work coal miners, the Roma, people living in the war zone in the East--and was shown in the Ukrainian pavilion at the 56th Venice Biennale. Lucky Breaks, her first work of fiction, was given a 2020 HKW International Literature Award in Germany.Ostashevsky, Eugene: - Eugene Ostashevsky is a poet, translator, and scholar. He is the author of The Pirate Who Does Not Know the Value of Pi and The Life and Opinions of DJ Spinoza. He teaches in the Liberal Studies program at NYU.
Author: Yevgenia Belorusets
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
Published: 03/01/2022
Pages: 112
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.25lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.10w x 0.50d
ISBN: 9780811229845
Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 01/03/2022
Kirkus Reviews 02/01/2022
About the Author
Belorusets, Yevgenia: - Yevgenia Belorusets is a Ukrainian writer, journalist, artist, and photographer who lives between Kyiv and Berlin. Her photographic work calls attention to the more vulnerable sections of Ukrainian society--queer families, out-of-work coal miners, the Roma, people living in the war zone in the East--and was shown in the Ukrainian pavilion at the 56th Venice Biennale. Lucky Breaks, her first work of fiction, was given a 2020 HKW International Literature Award in Germany.Ostashevsky, Eugene: - Eugene Ostashevsky is a poet, translator, and scholar. He is the author of The Pirate Who Does Not Know the Value of Pi and The Life and Opinions of DJ Spinoza. He teaches in the Liberal Studies program at NYU.
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