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Lucky Breaks by Belorusets, Yevgenia
by Belorusets, Yevgenia | PB | Good
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- Binding
- Paperback
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- Product Group
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- IsTextBook
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- ISBN
- 9780811229845
- Publication Year
- 2022
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Book Title
- Lucky Breaks
- Illustrator
- Yes
- Item Height
- 0.5 in
- Publisher
- New Directions Books
- Item Length
- 8.1 in
- Item Weight
- 4.2 Oz
- Item Width
- 5.3 in
- Number of Pages
- 112 Pages
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Publisher
New Directions Books
ISBN-10
081122984X
ISBN-13
9780811229845
eBay Product ID (ePID)
11057238404
Product Key Features
Book Title
Lucky Breaks
Number of Pages
112 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2022
Illustrator
Yes
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
0.5 in
Item Weight
4.2 Oz
Item Length
8.1 in
Item Width
5.3 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2021-046009
Reviews
A daring, unsettling book about displaced women telling luminous stories to survive the darkness that surrounds them., Magic, witchcraft and astrology infuse Belorusets's collection of absurdist stories about women in Ukraine...In vignettes no longer than a few pages, Belorusets recounts stories of women existing in the margins., In Yevgenia Belorusets's collection of short stories, Lucky Breaks, the machine-gun is fired and the mortar explodes, but offstage. Her stories are about anonymous women who trace new existences or disappear in the fog and ruins of the frozen conflict., Lucky Breaks is a book in Russian about the war in Ukraine that does not describe combat operations and that forbears to generalize in any way. The protagonists, many of whom are refugees, think of themselves as has-beens. To be, like one of them, a woman formerly from Alchevsk, in the contested Luhansk region, becomes the support structure for a new identity: an identity of which all we know is that it's irreversible, the world will never go back to being what it was. This is the point at which the tender and terrible stories of Yevgenia Belorusets, where bogeyman tales of childhood dress in the language of Jean Genet, and the documentary dilates into the epic, become the history we all have in common., Belorusets is interested in the histories of the defeated, of the unseen and unheard, and above all in the experiences of eastern Ukrainian women in wartime. [Her] willingness to exist between document and fiction is daring, even provocative. This is a moment when facts are both utterly compromised and vastly overvalued--asked to do all the work of politics, to justify whole worldviews with single data points. Belorusets, by contrast, is for plurality, subjectivity, a kind of narrative democracy. She wants us to remember that even documentary photographs and factual narratives are determined, and sometimes distorted, by the worldview that shaped them., Against the present and looming risk of a Russian invasion of Ukraine, [Belorusets] produces an especially unsettling awareness of the myriad ways in which imagination walks hand in hand with violent reality., Belorusets, a documentary photographer and activist, captures the extraordinary lives of ordinary Ukrainian women in her arresting fiction debut, a story collection. The brief entries survey lives upended by the political and military turmoil over the past two decades... Two of Belorusets's photo series supplement her writing, but her words speak for themselves. The combination makes for a powerful exercise., "Belorusets, who came to fiction from photojournalism (her own images appear in the book), excels at building stories that serve as striking snapshots of lives--strange, beautiful, and absent the interpretative context that might render them neater and less unsettling. As it is, this singular collection brings Ukraine, "the land of residual phenomena," entirely to life."
Dewey Edition
23
Dewey Decimal
891.715
Synopsis
Out of the impoverished coal regions of Ukraine known as the Donbass, where Russian secret military intervention coexists with banditry and insurgency, the women of Yevgenia Belorusets's captivating collection of stories emerge from the ruins of a war, still being waged on and off, ever since the 2014 Revolution of Dignity. Through a series of unexpected encounters, we are pulled into the ordinary lives of these anonymous women: a florist, a cosmetologist, card players, readers of horoscopes, the unemployed, and a witch who catches newborns with a mitt. One refugee tries unsuccessfully to leave her broken umbrella behind as if it were a sick relative; a private caregiver in a disputed zone saves her elderly charge from the angel of death; a woman sits down on International Women's Day and can no longer stand up; a soldier decides to marry war. Belorusets threads these tales of ebullient survival with a mix of humor, verisimilitude, the undramatic, and a profound Gogolian irony. She also weaves in twenty-three photographs that, in lyrical and historical counterpoint, form their own remarkable visual narrative., Powerful, off-beat stories about women living in the shadow of the now-frozen, now-thawing war in Ukraine
LC Classification Number
PG3491.44.L58435S54
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