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The book is a first person account of a soldier's journey, and is based on Artem Chekh's diary that he wrote while and after his service in the war in Donbas. One of the most important messages the book conveys is that war means pain. Chekh is not showing the reader any heroic combat, focusing instead on the quiet, mundane, and harsh soldier's life. Chekh masterfully selects the most poignant details of this kind of life.
Ukrainian writer and military serviceman Artem Chekh’s book was the winner of the 2021 BBC News Ukraine Book of the Year Award and is a gritty and bald bildungsroman, a lilting picaresque of a life lived in the shadow of someone else’s war. When Tymofiy is five years old, his small family in Cherkasy, Ukraine grows by one. Not with the birth of a baby sister or brother, but with the appearance of Felix—mentor and tormentor, enemy and friend—Tymofiy’s grandmother’s sometime-boyfriend. “Who are you?” Felix screams in the depths of a confused and drunken rage at all who cross his path, his memories of the Soviet-Afghan war clouding his eyes and senses. “Who are you?” Tymofiy...
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Le 24 février 2022, quand l’armée russe a envahi l’Ukraine, la stupeur et la tristesse ont saisi le monde entier. Ont commencé à affluer dans nos médias des noms qui, jusqu’ici, ne nous étaient guère familiers, teintés de la couleur des combats et de la tragédie : Boutcha, Marioupol, Kharkiv, la mer d’Azov, Dnipro... Mais que connaissons-nous vraiment de ce pays voisin ? Terre d’au-delà des Carpates, où les rivières coulent à travers des forêts et des steppes, l’Ukraine est aussi un pays à la culture millénaire, doté d’une scène littéraire foisonnante, encore trop peu connue en France. Nous avons donc demandé à quinze autrices et auteurs ukrainiens, de tous...
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