Books by Olesya Khromeychuk
“It tells a personal story of the loss of a brother at the front line of the Russian-Ukrainian war. The author’s brother was killed in 2017. He volunteered to serve in the army to defend his country. It was a point at which the rest of the world had more or less forgotten about the war unfolding in Ukraine. The author, Olesya Khromeychuk, tells the story of her loss in this lucid, compassionate manner. I imagine—I cannot say this for sure, because grief is a strange and personal thing—that it can allow many people to come to terms with the losses they are experiencing today.It is important to recognize the sheer longevity of the Russian-Ukrainian war. The book was republished in 2022, and a few chapters were added to reflect upon the full-scale invasion. Khromeychuk’s book brings the entire, almost decade-long history of the war into the present moment. A work of creative nonfiction, it includes imaginative, fairytale-like stories and dream-like moments, evoking the writer’s emotions, memories, and feelings about her brother.” Read more...
Sasha Dovzhyk, Literary Scholar
Interviews where books by Olesya Khromeychuk were recommended
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Voroshilovgrad
Serhiy Zhadan, Reilly Costigan-Humes & Isaac Stackhouse Wheeler (translators) -
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Cassandra: A Dramatic Poem
by Lesia Ukrainka & Nina Murray (translator) -
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The Death of a Soldier Told by His Sister
by Olesya Khromeychuk -
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The Moscoviad
by Yuri Andrukhovych, Vitaly Chernetsky (translator) -
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The Torture Camp on Paradise Street
by Stanislav Aseyev, Nina Murray & Zenia Tomkins (translators)
The Best Ukrainian Literature, recommended by Sasha Dovzhyk
The Best Ukrainian Literature, recommended by Sasha Dovzhyk
Since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine last year, many people around the world have become more familiar with the country’s recent history, but many of us still don’t know much about its literary traditions. Academic and activist Sasha Dovzhyk introduces five works of Ukrainian literature, from an early 20th-century dramatic poem to devastating first-person accounts of the war that started in 2014.
