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Book SynopsisKeynoteSet during the 2014 revolution in Ukraine, a unique and dazzling debut fiction - that has already gained praise and prizes - that combines history, folklore, oral history and news reports to give a human face and understanding to the complexity of today's conflict. Winner of the New York Public Library Young Lions AwardBest Book of the Year -New York Public Library, Cosmopolitan, Independent Book ReviewI tore through I Will Die in a Foreign Land... nothing has given me such a profound impression of what Ukrainians have endured as this intensely moving novel. Ron Charles, Washington PostIn 1913, a Russian ballet incited a riot in Paris at the new The tre de Champs-Elysees. Only a Russian could do that, says Aleksandr Ivanovich. Only a Russian could make the whole world go mad.A century later, in November 2013, thousands of Ukrainian citizens gathered at Independence Square (Euromaidan) in Kyiv to protest then-President Yanukovych's failure to sign a referendum with the European
