In store now! The Orphanage, by Serhiy Zhadan
In wartime situations, it is all too often the case that the truth can get lost in the detail; the lives of those affected by violence and destruction are woven together into a tapestry of suffering the rest of the world looks on despairingly. Serhiy Zhadan, one of the most prominent contemporary Ukrainian authors, counters this in his 2017 novel, The Orphanage.
Set in the now occupied Eastern territories of Ukraine, The Orphanage sees 35 year old Pasha, a language teacher, set out to find his orphaned nephew, lost somewhere within the occupied territories. Written with the grace of Cormac McCarthy, the blunt force of Hemmingway, and filled with the revelatory spirit of Orwell, The Orphanage has already been hailed as a deeply human portrait of the ordinary lives of those lost between the shifting borders of war and occupation.
The Orphanage by Serhiy Zhadan
Paperback £14.99
When hostile soldiers invade a neighbouring city, Pasha, a thirty-five-year-old Ukrainian language teacher, sets out for the orphanage where his nephew Sasha lives, now in occupied territory. Venturing into combat zones, traversing shifting borders, and forging uneasy alliances along the way, Pasha realises where his true loyalties lie in an increasingly desperate fight to rescue Sasha and bring him home. Written with a raw intensity, this is a deeply personal account of violence that will be remembered as the definitive novel of the war in Ukraine.
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