I Will Die in a Foreign Land

A powerful, boldly imaginative novel set in Ukraine about families and freedom

AvKalani Pickhart

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Engelska, 2022

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Winner of the New York Public Library Young Lions Fiction AwardBest Book of the Year - New York Public Library, Cosmopolitan, Independent Book Review2014 Kyiv, Ukraine. The city is poised on a knife-edge as tensions mount around a corrupt government's increasing ties to Russia. As protests erupt across the city, the fates of four individuals come together.Katya is a Ukrainian-American doctor stationed at a makeshift medical clinic treating wounded protesters.Misha is an engineer originally from Pripyat, near Chernobyl, grieving the death of his wife. Slava is a fiery young activist whose past hardships steel her determination.Aleksandr Ivanovich, a former KGB agent, climbs atop a burned-out bus at Independence Square and plays the piano.In this dazzling, inventive debut novel - set during the 'Revolution of Dignity' - Kalani Pickhart weaves together a rich tapestry of voices to create a moving story about beauty, love and survival during tumultuous times.'Pickhart's story is powerful, boldly imaginative, rich in history and feeling, charged with events that have occurred since it was written - and which summon up the same force of the history that compelled an American author to write about this "foreign land".' The Times

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2022-09-22
Språk:Engelska
Filformat:EPUB
Kopieringsskydd:LCP
ISBN:9781529903355
Förlag:Transworld Publishers Ltd

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Moderna och samtida romaner inom Skönlitteratur
Krigsromaner inom Skönlitteratur
Historiska romaner inom Skönlitteratur

Mer om författaren

Kalani Pickhart was selected as an inaugural 2022 New Voices Literary Fellow for the Sun Valley Writer's Conference, and has been the recipient of fellowships from the Virginia G. Piper Center and the U.S. Department of State Bureau of Intelligence for Eastern European and Eurasian Studies. I Will Die in a Foreign Land has been recently long-listed for the Virginia Commonwealth University Cabell First Novelist Award and has been named a finalist for the Young Lions Fiction Award. Kalani currently lives and writes in Phoenix, Arizona.

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Powerful debut ... an impressive feat of empathy ... a rich, multilayered story [that] will resonate with a wide range of readers, and provide illuminating insight for those hoping to learn more about the current conflict.