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02343aam a22003258i 4500 001 1B930044B9BD11EE8D04BAA53BECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20240123010033 008 231024s2024 nyu 000 0 eng 010 $a 2023041059 020 $a 1644212951 020 $a 9781644212950 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d SILO 041 1 $a eng $h rus $h rus 050 00 $a PG3948.C46 $b U5713 2024 082 00 $2 23/eng/20231014 100 1 $a Chapeye, Artem, $e author. 240 10 $a Ukraine. $l English 245 14 $a THE UKRAINE / $c Artem Chapeye ; translated by Zenia H. Tompkins. 263 $a 2401 264 1 $a New York : $b Seven Stories Press, $c 2024. 300 $a pages cm 500 $a 2024/01/30 520 $a "The Ukraine is a collection of 26 pieces that deliberately blur the line between nonfiction and fiction, conjuring the essence of a beloved country through its tastes, smells, and sounds, its small towns and big cities, its people and their compassion and indifference, simplicities and complications. In the title story, Chapeye facetiously plays with the English misuse of the article "the" in reference to Ukraine, capturing a country as perceived from the outside, by foreigners. That pseudo-kitsch, oftenhistorically shallow, and not-quite-real Ukraine resonates because of its highly engaging and brutally candid snapshots of ordinary lives and typical places. In "One Soul per Home" an elderly woman laments that the men are dying and the young are leavingfor the cities, changing the face of her small town. In "The Unscrupulous Spirit of the Provinces," a couple of unspecified gender get stoned and go to church, and in "False Premises," a man romanticizes his younger years working for a Soviet fishing fleet only to reconstruct his nostalgia in the face of Putin's Russia. The Ukraine conveys to readers a place that Chapeye and his countrymen are currently fighting for with their lives. The book will feature a preface by the author, which he is writing on his phone from the front lines"-- $c Provided by publisher. 600 10 $a Chapeye, Artem $v Translations into English. 655 7 $a Short stories. $2 lcgft $9 164681 700 1 $a Tompkins, Zenia, $e translator. 941 $a 1 952 $l BAPH771 $d 20240123010210.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=1B930044B9BD11EE8D04BAA53BECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search