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"Out of the impoverished coal regions of Ukraine known as the Donbass, where Russian secret military intervention coexists with banditry and insurgency, the women of Yevgenia Belorusets's captivating collection of stories emerge from the ruins of a war, still being waged on and off, ever s...
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New Directions Publishing Corporation,
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| Publisher Address: | New York, NY : |
| Publication Dates: | 2022. |
| Literature type: | Book |
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English Russian |
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"Out of the impoverished coal regions of Ukraine known as the Donbass, where Russian secret military intervention coexists with banditry and insurgency, the women of Yevgenia Belorusets's captivating collection of stories emerge from the ruins of a war, still being waged on and off, ever since the 2014 Revolution of Dignity. Through a series of unexpected encounters, we are pulled into the ordinary lives of these anonymous women: a florist, a cosmetologist, card players, readers of horoscopes, the unemployed, and a witch who catches newborns with a mitt. One refugee tries unsuccessfully to leave her broken umbrella behind as if it were a sick relative; a private caregiver in a disputed zone saves her elderly charge from the angel of death; a woman sits down on International Women's Day and can no longer stand up; a soldier decides to marry war. Belorusets threads these tales of ebullient survival with a mix of humor, verisimilitude, the undramatic, and a profound Gogolian irony. She also weaves in twenty-three photographs that, in lyrical and historical counterpoint."-- |
| Carrier Form: | 109 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm |
| ISBN: |
9780811229845 081122984X |
| Index Number: | PG3491 |
| CLC: | I511.345 |
| Call Number: | I511.345/B452 |
| Contents: |
Preface: Interview (The jaws of fate) -- Those I met -- A needle in a nightshirt -- The woman who caught babies in a mitt -- March 8: The woman who could not walk -- Two women on the airplane stairs: No one moves (March 9, Kyiv) -- The woman who fell sick -- The florist -- The manicurist -- My sister -- Neighbor histories -- A woman finds a job -- The woman with the black, broken umbrella -- The seer of dreams -- The lonely woman -- Lena in danger -- Chronicle of a revolt -- The power of time -- Elena -- The crash -- The shillyshallier -- The stars -- Transformations -- Lilacs -- A woman at the cosmetologist's -- The sisters -- Philosophy -- Light attractors -- Three songs of lamentation -- For example -- The address, or sketches for an autobiography -- The naive woman -- A brief declaration on waiting. |