Daughter

Donetsk, 2014, from spring into summer. The book treats the Donbas as the place where everything was reset, where the decisive questions were first asked and where their answers are buried. In this city the narrator is stripped of her relatives, her house, her work and every illusion she had, and in the same city she rebuilds a life out of what remains, discovering a new purpose and people to rely on. As common sense parts ways with reality and anything solid turns to dust under her hands, she pretends she is not there at all. War, the novel suggests, means eating the earth, and, what matters more, feeding it.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

283 pages in the original

Genres

War (assigned by AI)

Set in

Ukraine, 2014

First published

2019 by Білка

Author's age

43 when first published

ISBN

9786177792092 (original)

9786177792290 (Bilka Publishing, Ukraine)