{"product_id":"9781644212950","title":"The Ukraine","description":"Author: Chapeye, Artem \u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9781644212950 \u003cbr\u003ePublisher: RANDOM HOUSE US \u003cbr\u003eYear First Published: 2024 \u003cbr\u003ePages: 272 \u003cbr\u003eDimensions: 207mm x 139mm x 17mm \u003cbr\u003eFormat: Paperback \/ softback \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDescription: \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Ukraine\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eIn 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.\u003c\/li\u003e\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eIn \"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;\u003c\/li\u003e\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eIn \"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.\u003c\/li\u003e\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Ukraine\u003c\/i\u003e conveys to readers a place that Chapeye and his countrymen are currently fighting for with their lives. The book features a preface by the author, which he composed on his phone from the front lines.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA stunning debut collection of fiction and creative nonfiction- irreverent and unglorified; loving and tender; uncomfortable and inconvenient-by a Ukrainian writer currently fighting for his country in Kyiv.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Includes the celebrated title story \"The Ukraine,\" which was published in the \u003ci\u003eNew Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e in 2022.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Ukraine\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eIn 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.\u003c\/li\u003e\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eIn \"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;\u003c\/li\u003e\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eIn \"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.\u003c\/li\u003e\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Ukraine\u003c\/i\u003e conveys to readers a place that Chapeye and his countrymen are currently fighting for with their lives. The book features a preface by the author, which he composed on his phone from the front lines.","brand":"Ships in 10 to 15 days","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45307500462238,"sku":"UBD-9781644212950","price":39.78,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0400\/9043\/5742\/files\/9781644212950.jpg?v=1743991919","url":"https:\/\/classicbargains.com.au\/products\/9781644212950","provider":"Classic Bargains Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}