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by Marina Grimich, Natalia Lapina, Tetyana Melnyk-Dobrushina, Natalia Huk, Vita Vitrenko, Viktoriya Andrusiv, Tetyana Belimova, Olena Yashchuk Codet, Nica Nicaleo ...

In Ukrainian Stories, nine leading Ukrainian women writers, now scattered around the world, share their personal stories of homesickness and adaptation to new cultures. This book is a collection of reflections on life in exile, mixed with hope and renewal, as they struggle with their identity and the concept of home.Each story highlights the challenges and enriching experiences of living far from ... Read more

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In Ukrainian Stories, nine leading Ukrainian women writers, now scattered around the world, share their personal stories of homesickness and adaptation to new cultures. This book is a collection of reflections on life in exile, mixed with hope and renewal, as they struggle with their identity and the concept of home.Each story highlights the challenges and enriching experiences of living far from
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**WINNER OF THE 2023 INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZENew Yorker • Best Books of 2022An award-winning international sensation—with a second-act dystopian twist—Time Shelter is a tour de force set in a world clamoring for the past before it forgets.**“At one point they tried to calculate when time began, when exactly the earth had been created,” begins Time Shelter’s enigmatic narrator, who will go
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Nation of Strangers

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