Харків. 1938

This novel imagines Ukraine as it might have been had the Ukrainian People's Republic held out. Its central thread is a literary carnival in Kharkiv, the capital, to which poets, writers, political figures, nationalists, spies and terrorists all flock. Mixing buffoonery, burlesque and spy thriller, the book compresses two centuries so that a present-day literary critic can talk with Olha Kobylianska, and it doubles as a test of the reader's knowledge of world literature and Ukrainian history.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

223 pages in the original

Genres

Speculative, Satire, Politics (assigned by AI)

Set in

Ukraine, 1938

First published

2017 by Laurus

Author's age

56 when first published

ISBN

9786177313068 (original)