The Ukraine / Artem Chapeye ; translated by Zenia Tompkins.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Chapaĭ, Artem, author.

Contributor:

Tompkins, Zenia, translator.

Anne and Joseph Trachtman Memorial Book Fund.

Standardized Title:

Ukraine. English

Language:

English

Russian

Ukrainian

Subjects (All):

Chapaĭ, Artem--Translations into English.

Chapaĭ, Artem.

Ukrainian fiction--Translations into English.

Ukrainian fiction.

Genre:

Short stories.

short stories.

Physical Description:

265 pages ; 21 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Seven Stories Press, [2024]

Language Note:

In English, translated from the Ukrainian.

Summary:

"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, often historically 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 leaving for 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"-- Provided by publisher.

Notes:

"This collection was originally published in Ukrainian as The Ukraine by Books XXI (Chernivtsi, Ukraine) in 2018."

Local Notes:

Athenaeum copy: Gift of Joan Detz.

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Anne and Joseph Trachtman Memorial Book Fund.

ISBN:

9781644212950

1644212951

OCLC:

1376418471

Publisher Number:

99995833670