{"product_id":"the-ukraine","title":"The Ukraine","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBy:\u003c\/strong\u003e Artem Chapeye\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003ePublished by Seven Stories Press, 2024-01-30\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eA stunning debut collection of fiction and creative nonfiction— irreverent and unglorified; loving and tender; uncomfortable and inconvenient—by a Ukrainian writer currently fighting for his country in Kyiv.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Includes the celebrated title story \"The Ukraine,\" which was published in the \u003ci\u003eNew Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e in 2022.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Ukraine\u003c\/i\u003e is a collection of 26 pieces that deliberately blur the line between nonfiction and fiction, conjuring the essence of a beloved country through its tastes, smells, and sounds, its small towns and big cities, its people and their compassion and indifference, simplicities and complications.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eIn the title story, Chapeye facetiously plays with the English misuse of the article “the” in reference to Ukraine, capturing a country as perceived from the outside, by foreigners. That pseudo-kitsch, often historically shallow, and not-quite-real Ukraine resonates because of its highly engaging and brutally candid snapshots of ordinary lives and typical places.\u003c\/li\u003e\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eIn “One Soul per Home” an elderly woman laments that the men are dying and the young are leaving for the cities, changing the face of her small town;\u003c\/li\u003e\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eIn “The Unscrupulous Spirit of the Provinces,” a couple of unspecified gender get stoned and go to church; and in “False Premises,” a man romanticizes his younger years working for a Soviet fishing fleet only to reconstruct his nostalgia in the face of Putin’s Russia.\u003c\/li\u003e\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Ukraine\u003c\/i\u003e conveys to readers a place that Chapeye and his countrymen are currently fighting for with their lives. The book features a preface by the author, which he composed on his phone from the front lines.","brand":"Phoenix Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47137650016425,"sku":"PHBK-9781644212950","price":18.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0578\/9899\/1785\/files\/11033833482773.jpg?v=1780332924","url":"https:\/\/myti.com\/products\/the-ukraine","provider":"Myti","version":"1.0","type":"link"}