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Radio Night

Радіо Ніч · Radio Nich

Yuri Andrukhovych (Юрій Андрухович, born 1960)

Translated by Mark Andryczyk

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As in 'real reality', another revolution has been defeated, perhaps because it lost its mysterious leader. Josyp Rotskyi, a musical hero of the barricades, is forced to flee wherever he can, trying on the fates of many other Josyps. He is pursued, and the regime's secret services are only half the trouble: there is also an inappropriate love he cannot master and a bank secret he cannot handle, a prison experience and an unintentionally successful terrorist act. From a last refuge he is allowed to host a night broadcast, though it may not really be the last. An adventure novel that meets fantasy, where David Bowie meets the wandering musicians of the Middle Ages.

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About the book

Form
Novel
Length
456 pages in the original
Genres
Politics, Love (assigned by AI)
First published
2021 by Meridian Czernowitz
Author's age
61 when first published
ISBN

9786178024055 (original)

9798896230168 (New York Review Books, United States)