A Harvest Truce

Author : Serhiy Zhadan
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674292022
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Harvest Truce written by Serhiy Zhadan and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2024-07-09 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brothers Anton and Tolik reunite at their family home to bury their recently deceased mother. An otherwise natural ritual unfolds under extraordinary circumstances: their house is on the front line of a war ignited by Russian-backed separatists in eastern Ukraine. Isolated without power or running water, the brothers’ best hope for success and survival lies in the declared cease fire—the harvest truce. But such hopes are swiftly dashed, as it becomes apparent that the conflagration of war will not abate. With echoes of Waiting for Godot, Serhiy Zhadan’s A Harvest Truce stages a tragicomedy in which the commonplace experiences of death, birth, and the cycles of life marked by the practices of growing and harvesting food are rendered futile and farcical in the wake of the indifferent juggernaut of war.

Author : Marianna Kiyanovska
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674268873
Total Pages : 185 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Voices of Babyn Yar written by Marianna Kiyanovska and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2022-08-09 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With The Voices of Babyn Yar—a collection of stirring poems by Marianna Kiyanovska—the award-winning Ukrainian poet honors the victims of the Holocaust by writing their stories of horror, death, and survival by projecting their own imagined voices. Artful and carefully intoned, the poems convey the experiences of ordinary civilians going through unbearable events leading to the massacre at Kyiv’s Babyn Yar from a first-person perspective to an effect that is simultaneously immersive and estranging. While conceived as a tribute to the fallen, the book raises difficult questions about memory, responsibility, and commemoration of those who had witnessed an evil that verges on the unspeakable.

Author : Ola Hnatiuk
Publisher : Academic Studies PRess
ISBN 13 : 1644692538
Total Pages : 484 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Courage and Fear written by Ola Hnatiuk and published by Academic Studies PRess. This book was released on 2020-01-28 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Courage and Fear is a study of a multicultural city in times when all norms collapse. Ola Hnatiuk presents a meticulously documented portrait of Lviv’s ethnically diverse intelligentsia during World War Two. As the Soviet, Nazi, and once again Soviet occupations tear the city’s social fabric apart, groups of Polish, Ukrainian, and Jewish doctors, academics, and artists try to survive, struggling to manage complex relationships and to uphold their ethos. As their pre-war lives are violently upended, courage and fear shape their actions. Ola Hnatiuk employs diverse sources in several languages to tell the story of Lviv from a multi-ethnic perspective and to challenge the national narratives dominant in Central and Eastern Europe.

Author : Leonard G. Friesen
Publisher : Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rural Revolutions in Southern Ukraine written by Leonard G. Friesen and published by Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute. This book was released on 2008 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Leonard Friesen presents a study of the transformation of New Russia--the region north of the Black and Azov seas--from its conquest by the Russian Empire in the late eighteenth century to the revolutionary tumult of 1905. Friesen focuses on the multifaceted relations between the region's peasants, European colonists, and Russian estate owners.

Author : Kathy Tyers
Publisher : Random House Worlds
ISBN 13 : 0553568728
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Truce at Bakura: Star Wars Legends written by Kathy Tyers and published by Random House Worlds. This book was released on 1994-11-01 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No sooner has Darth Vader's funeral pyre burned to ashes on Endor than the Alliance intercepts a call for help from a far-flung Imperial outpost. Bakura is on the edge of known space and the first to meet the Ssi-ruuk, cold-blooded reptilian invaders who, once allied with the now dead Emperor, are approaching Imperial space with only one goal; total domination. Princess Leia sees the mission as an opportunity to achieve a diplomatic victory for the Alliance. But it assumes even greater importance when a vision of Obi-Wan Kenobi appears to Luke Skywalker with the message that he must go to Bakura-or risk losing everything the Rebels have fought so desperately to achieve.

Author : Jo Walton
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0765343274
Total Pages : 422 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The King's Peace written by Jo Walton and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2002-08-19 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sulian ap Gwien was only 17 when the Jarnish raiders came. Had she been armed, she could have defeated them. It took six to subdue her--and she will never forgive them. Thus begins the tale of a woman who rises to become the strong right hand to the great king who will reunite his people. (August)

Author : Olena Stiazhkina
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674291662
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cecil the Lion Had to Die written by Olena Stiazhkina and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2024-01-23 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Cecil the Lion Had to Die, Olena Stiazhkina follows four families through radical transformations when the Soviet Union implodes, independent Ukraine emerges, and Russia occupies Ukraine's Crimea and parts of the Donbas. A must-read novel for those seeking deeper understanding of how Ukrainian history and local identity shapes war with Russia.

Author : Oksana Lutsyshyna
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674297172
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Love Life written by Oksana Lutsyshyna and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2024-04-02 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Love Life, the second novel by the award-winning Ukrainian writer and poet Oksana Lutsyshyna, follows Yora, an immigrant to the United States from Ukraine. A delicate soul who is finely attuned to the nuances of human relations, Yora becomes enmeshed with Sebastian, a seductive acquaintance who suggests that they share a deep bond. But the relationship ends, sending her into a period of despair and grief. Full of mystic allusions, Love Life is a fascinating story of self-discovery amidst the complexities of adapting to a new life.

Author : Juliana Barr
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 9780807867730
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.3X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Peace Came in the Form of a Woman written by Juliana Barr and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2009-11-30 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Revising the standard narrative of European-Indian relations in America, Juliana Barr reconstructs a world in which Indians were the dominant power and Europeans were the ones forced to accommodate, resist, and persevere. She demonstrates that between the 1690s and 1780s, Indian peoples including Caddos, Apaches, Payayas, Karankawas, Wichitas, and Comanches formed relationships with Spaniards in Texas that refuted European claims of imperial control. Barr argues that Indians not only retained control over their territories but also imposed control over Spaniards. Instead of being defined in racial terms, as was often the case with European constructions of power, diplomatic relations between the Indians and Spaniards in the region were dictated by Indian expressions of power, grounded in gendered terms of kinship. By examining six realms of encounter--first contact, settlement and intermarriage, mission life, warfare, diplomacy, and captivity--Barr shows that native categories of gender provided the political structure of Indian-Spanish relations by defining people's identity, status, and obligations vis-a-vis others. Because native systems of kin-based social and political order predominated, argues Barr, Indian concepts of gender cut across European perceptions of racial difference.

Author : Edward L. Keenan
Publisher : Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 576 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Josef Dobrovský and the Origins of the Igor' Tale written by Edward L. Keenan and published by Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute. This book was released on 2003 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This controversial and groundbreaking book revisits the origins of one of the most beloved works of East Slavic literature, Slovo o polku Igoreve (The Igorʹ Tale). Keenan argues that the text is not an authentic 12th-century document but rather was created by the Bohemian scholar Josef Dobrovský in the late 18th century.