Порт Житана

Port Gitane is a cosy little restaurant on the shore of Lake Geneva. At different times it becomes a special place for two men: Marko Mazur, a Ukrainian émigré artist who made his name with avant-garde work in interwar Paris, and Serhii Kovalenko, an art historian building a collection for an influential Kyiv oligarch who tries to uncover the mystery of how his famous countryman disappeared. History and the present are tightly interwoven, as are art and human fates. The novel is about forced flight and the return that must follow, false love and real love, and the choices a person makes every day.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

255 pages in the original

Genres

Historical, Migration (assigned by AI)

Set in

Switzerland, France, Ukraine

First published

2020 by Meridian Czernowitz

Author's age

63 when first published

ISBN

9786177807086 (original)