EAN: 9781804991640

I WILL DIE IN A FOREIGN LAND - KALANI PICKHART ...

Winner of the New York Public Library Young Lions Fiction Award Best Book of the Year - New
York Public Library  Cosmopolitan  Independent Book Review 'Pickhart's story is powerful 
boldly imaginative  rich in history and feeling  charged with events that have occurred since
it was written - and which summon up the same force of the history that compelled an American
author to write about this foreign land.' The Times 2014 Kyiv  Ukraine. The city is poised on a
knife-edge as tensions mount around a corrupt government's increasing ties to Russia. As
protests erupt across the city  the fates of four individuals come together. Katya is a
Ukrainian-American doctor stationed at a makeshift medical clinic treating wounded protesters 
Misha is an engineer originally from Pripyat  near Chernobyl  grieving the death of his wife 
Slava is a fiery young activist whose past hardships steel her determination  Aleksandr
Ivanovich  a former KGB agent  climbs atop a burned-out bus at Independence Square and plays
the piano. In this dazzling  inventive debut novel - set during the 'Revolution of Dignity' -
Kalani Pickhart weaves together a rich tapestry of voices to create a moving story about beauty
love and survival during tumultuous times.

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