This book is written to preserve what would otherwise be lost forever. This is not an autobiography; it is not about the author but about his ancestors from the last century. It is impossible to know yourself without having an idea of where you come from and what ideals you were raised on. Sooner or later, we begin to wonder what our parents and predecessors did, how long they lived, where they came from, and where they were heading. It often happens that these questions come to us too late, when there are no living witnesses left, and the documents have disappeared. Perhaps the fates of their ancestors will catch the interest of someone from future generations of our family tree, regardless of where they are born, where they live, or what language they speak. Then this book will be useful to them, for where else will they hear our echo from the 20th century – the echo of life in a vanished realm, which always treated historical science like a service dog.
The first bilingual collection of Ukrainian verse by Borys Khersonsky. In these poems, heaven is often the setting: Jews who perished during pogroms and in the Holocaust continue with their daily routines, whereas on earth, displacement has become a constant, and collective memory has been cleansed of the Jewish past.
A collection of very short stories. In Russian.
Six Trains of No Return collects twelve short stories and novellas that examine immigrant sagas and dislocations.
When Clea returns to London with her new Russian husband, she is surprised to see him become even more eccentric.
After a century of brooding and talking telepathically to his Mausoleum janitor from his glass coffin, Vladimir Lenin awakens—alive and bewildered in the modern world.
