Captivating, innovative Ukrainian fiction about displaced women living in the shadow of the war with Russia’This singular collection brings Ukraine, ‘the land of residual phenomena, ‘ entirely to life’ Kirkus Reviews In Lucky Breaks, we encounter anonymous women from the margins of Ukrainian society, their lives upended by the ongoing conflict with Russia. A woman, bewildered by her broken umbrella, tries to abandon it like a sick relative; a beautiful florist suddenly disappears, her shop converted into a warehouse for propaganda; hiding out from the shelling, neighbours read horoscopes in the local paper that tell them when it’s safe for them to go outside.In stories of linguistic verve and absurdist wit, Yevgenia Belorusets writes of trauma amidst the mundane, telling surreal, unsettling tales of survival in a shattered country.
关于作者
Eugene Ostashevsky is the author of the forthcoming poetry collection The Feeling Sonnets. His previous poetry collection, The Pirate Who Does Know the Value of Pi, was translated into German and won the prestigious City of Muenster Award for International Poetry.