{"product_id":"the-ukraine-artem-chapeye-9781644212950","title":"The Ukraine","description":"\u003cb\u003eA stunning debut collection of fiction and creative nonfiction-- irreverent and unglorified; loving and tender; uncomfortable and inconvenient--by a Ukrainian writer currently fighting for his country in Kyiv. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Includes the celebrated title story \"The Ukraine,\" which was published in the \u003ci\u003eNew Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e in 2022. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Ukraine\u003c\/i\u003e is a collection of 26 pieces that deliberately blur the line between nonfiction and fiction, conjuring the essence of a beloved country through its tastes, smells, and sounds, its small towns and big cities, its people and their compassion and indifference, simplicities and complications. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eIn the title story, Chapeye facetiously plays with the English misuse of the article \"the\" in reference to Ukraine, capturing a country as perceived from the outside, by foreigners. That pseudo-kitsch, often historically shallow, and not-quite-real Ukraine resonates because of its highly engaging and brutally candid snapshots of ordinary lives and typical places.\u003c\/li\u003e\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eIn \"One Soul per Home\" an elderly woman laments that the men are dying and the young are leaving for the cities, changing the face of her small town;\u003c\/li\u003e\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eIn \"The Unscrupulous Spirit of the Provinces,\" a couple of unspecified gender get stoned and go to church; and in \"False Premises,\" a man romanticizes his younger years working for a Soviet fishing fleet only to reconstruct his nostalgia in the face of Putin's Russia.\u003c\/li\u003e\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Ukraine\u003c\/i\u003e conveys to readers a place that Chapeye and his countrymen are currently fighting for with their lives. The book features a preface by the author, which he composed on his phone from the front lines.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Artem Chapeye\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1644212951\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781644212950\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Seven Stories Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/30\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 272\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.61lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.30h x 5.40w x 0.90d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 11\/27\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eForeword\u003c\/i\u003e 12\/27\/2023","brand":"Artem Chapeye","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44159290310911,"sku":"9781644212950","price":18.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_0507b4c1-0528-4778-848a-ab30e24522ab.jpg?v=1689081727","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-ukraine-artem-chapeye-9781644212950","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}