- BBC Ukrainian Book of the Year 2023 · Shortlist
За Перекопом є земля
Za Perekopom ye zemlia
“There Is Land Beyond Perekop” (title translated by AI)
Anastasiia Levkova (Анастасія Левкова, born 1986)
English editions
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Crimea is where the heroine spent her childhood and youth and had her first love, and where she understood that she was Ukrainian, despite a grandfather who was a KGB lieutenant colonel and the Russian blood in her veins. Her childhood friendship with Aliie, a Crimean Tatar girl, and her immersion in that culture become the seed of a long search for her own identity. Crimean Tatar culture and Ukrainian history are woven together like an ornament, and the novel brings in Karaites, Ukrainians, Russians, Germans, Jews, Greeks and Armenians of Crimea, opening family cupboards full of skeletons. The story runs from the girls' childhood in the 1990s to the Russian occupation of the peninsula in 2014.
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About the book
- Form
- Novel
- Genres
- Coming of age, Historical (assigned by AI)
- Set in
- Ukraine, 1990s–2014
- First published
- 2023 by Лабораторія
- Author's age
- 37 when first published
- ISBN
9786178203818 (original)