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Ukrainian literature 🇺🇦
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items Discover the richness of Ukrainian literature through the voices of its most celebrated authors. From contemporary storytellers to classic voices, these books offer insight into Ukraine’s history, culture, and the human experience. Perfect for anyone...
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Ukrainian Contemporary Fiction. Collection of fantasy stories “Motanka”
A facsimile edition of the illustrated autobiography by Ukrainian artist and author Taras Shevchenko, known for his contributions to Ukrainian national identity.
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of th...
Hadamaky: Z portretom avtora i iliustratsiiamy
An epic tale of unity and resistance. Medieval Ukraine, looming threats, and the unbreakable spirit of a community fighting for its freedom.
Захар Беркут : образ громадського життя Карпатської Русі в XIII віці : історична повість
A lyrical, otherworldly drama where folklore breathes and the forest feels alive. Through the love between a human and a forest spirit, Lesia Ukrainka explores freedom, longing, and the fragile space between reality and myth. Ethereal, poetic, and em...
Лісова пісня. Драми
A dark, provocative blend of philosophy, politics, and mysticism. “Night” moves through shadowed thoughts, sharp reflections, and unsettling ideas, challenging the reader to confront chaos, faith, and the contradictions of human nature. Intense, unpr...
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As a foundational text, The Kobzar by Taras Shevchenko has played an important role in galvanizing the Ukrainian identity and in the development of Ukraine's written language and Ukrainian literature. The first editions had been censored by the Russi...
Kobzar
Arthania is a personal prayer to God, which can be heard and read by people, and animals, and plants, and stars. New song rhythm forms and meanings are proposed in this book; the truth of author Ihor Pavlyuk’s life (as a citizen of Ukraine, who lived...
Arthania: Selected Poems|Hardcover
When Russia invaded Ukraine on February 24, 2022, Victoria Amelina was busy writing a novel, taking part in the country’s literary scene, and parenting her son. Now she became someone new: a war crimes researcher and the chronicler of extraordinary w...
Looking at Women Looking at War: A War and Justice Diary|Hardcover
A devastating story of the struggle of civilians caught up in the conflict in eastern Ukraine
Chosen as one of “Six Books to Read for Context on Ukraine” by the New York Times
Selected by Publishers Weekly as one of the “20 Best Books of 2021”
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The Orphanage: A Novel|Paperback
Paper Bridge is the first bilingual collection by Ukrainian poet Vasyl Makhno, a “master of the contemporary Ukrainian Ballad, who builds a lifeline for the broken-hearted wanderers, homeless heartbreakers, hopeless romantics, and helpful ironists,” ...
Paper Bridge|Paperback
As the author states that her book "...is about courage, too, about the out-and-out courage to claim what is rightfully yours, to recognize it, to dig in your heels, and never give away to anyone what is yours, your home, your motherland, your heart,...
Daughter|Paperback
Called “the most influential Ukrainian book for the 15 years of independence, Field Work in Ukrainian Sex by Oksana Zabuzhko is the tale of one woman’s personal revolt provoked by a top literary scandal of the decade. The author, a noted Ukrainian po...
Fieldwork in Ukrainian Sex|Paperback
An introduction to an original poetic voice from eastern Ukraine with deep roots in the unique cultural landscape of post-Soviet devastation
"This collection of Ukrainian writer Serhiy Zhadan's poems will likely cement his reputation as the unflinchi...
What We Live For, What We Die for: Selected Poems
Lesia Ukrainka was a Ukrainian poet, prose writer, and dramatist of universal importance.
Her first collection of poetry, On the Wings of Song (1893), established her reputation as an accomplished lyrical poet.
This collection contains her often-qu...
The Song of the Forest
With a warm yet political humor, Ukraine's most famous novelist presents a balanced and illuminating portrait of modern conflict.
Little Starhorodivka, a village of three streets, lies in Ukraine's Grey Zone, the no-man's-land between loyalist and s...
Grey Bees|Paperback
One of the best historical adventure books of Ukrainian classic literature. They just wanted to be free. But freedom is given at a high cost! Mykhailo Kotsiubynsky’s novella “At a High Cost” (1901) is set in 1830s Ukraine which belongs to the Russian...
At a High Cost|eBook
Many of the stories in this volume deal with the life of a young boy growing up in Galicia, in the far east of the Austro-Hungarian Empire in the mid-1800s. They depict the poverty and difficult conditions in the region at that time. Although autobio...
Down and Out in Drohobych|Paperback
Boryslav in Flames by Ivan Franko is a pioneering novel that depicts the rise of the labour movement in Western Ukraine. The story unfolds against the backdrop of the industrial revolution in the Austro-Hungarian Empire during the 1860s. As industry ...
Boryslav in Flames|Paperback
A city-dwelling executive heads home to take over his brother's gas station after his mysterious disappearance, but all he finds at home are mysteries and ghosts. The bleak industrial landscape of now-war-torn eastern Ukraine sets the stage for Voros...
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