»A nightmarish, raw vision of contemporary eastern Ukraine under siege«
A young teacher plans on bringing his 13-year-old nephew home from the boarding school at the other end of town. The school, in which his working sister has »parked« her son, has come under fire and no longer offers security. Crossing the town, in which civil life has broken down, takes a whole day.
Zhadan was awarded the prestigious Friedenspreis des Deutschen Buchhandels 2022 (Peace Prize of the German Book Trade). He lives in Kharkiv.
»A nightmarish, raw vision of contemporary eastern Ukraine under Siege«
Publishers Weekly
»Everywhere people are shooting, at any time a tank can come around the corner, it is unclear just who is friend and who is foe, it is the apocalypse, or as Zhadan himself says numerous times: hell. [He] sketches this world with such an intensity and eye for detail that it becomes clear he does not simply know it from hearsay or the TV.«
Westdeutscher Rundfunk
»If you want to understand what happened in Eastern Ukraine, you have to read Serhiy Zhadan’s books.«
Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
Zhadan was awarded the prestigious Friedenspreis des Deutschen Buchhandels 2022 (Peace Prize of the German Book Trade). He lives in Kharkiv.
»A nightmarish, raw vision of contemporary eastern Ukraine under Siege«
Publishers Weekly
»Everywhere people are shooting, at any time a tank can come around the corner, it is unclear just who is friend and who is foe, it is the apocalypse, or as Zhadan himself says numerous times: hell. [He] sketches this world with such an intensity and eye for detail that it becomes clear he does not simply know it from hearsay or the TV.«
Westdeutscher Rundfunk
»If you want to understand what happened in Eastern Ukraine, you have to read Serhiy Zhadan’s books.«
Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung