- BBC Ukrainian Book of the Year 2022 · Shortlist
Гіркі апельсини
Hirki apelsyny
“Bitter Oranges” (title translated by AI)
Maryna Manchenko (Марина Манченко)
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A novel in linked stories about Ukrainian women and men living in Sicily. They study, work and create, and their fates weave into a strange lace against the sea, flowering hibiscus and rather old-fashioned local traditions. Each story follows its own characters, and together they show a side of Ukrainians in Italy rarely seen from home: not those who came to earn money, but those who came to study, or pretended to. The infatuation with Sicily gradually wears off, the seasons change, and the Sicilian oranges turn out to be not nearly as sweet as they seemed.
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About the book
- Form
- Novel
- Genres
- Migration (assigned by AI)
- Set in
- Italy
- First published
- 2022 by Темпора