In 1921 after four years of war the Bolsheviks conquer Ukraine, but Raven and Veremii hide in the forests with other Cossacks and continue their struggle. When Veremii dies in battle the communists secretly follow the burial party, but when they dig up the coffin they find a cryptic note instead of a corpse. Meanwhile Raven, thinks he is dead when a grenade blows him off his horse, so is surprised to wake up in the witch Yevdosia's house.... That night a woman appears in his dreams and makes love to him, only to disappear, leaving him with the scent of orchids. Vasyl Shkliar has used...
In 1921 after four years of war the Bolsheviks conquer Ukraine, but Raven and Veremii hide in the forests with other Cossacks and continue their strug...
On a sunny day in 2077 Ihor Haiduk wakes up in his Washington apartment with is lover beside him and a killer drone hovering above his head. Soon he accused of murder and is fleeing assassins while travelling in an armour-plated limousine from the White House to the Canadian border. He hitches a ride on a hospital aircraft and travels over war-torn Europe with Bozhena, the niece of the president's aide, who he has been asked to rescue. After leaving Bozhena in Poland, he enters Ukraine illegally to track down his enemies and save Ukraine. Will he managed to find his enemies before they...
On a sunny day in 2077 Ihor Haiduk wakes up in his Washington apartment with is lover beside him and a killer drone hovering above his head. Soon h...
The novel began on Facebook as a series of bulletins from an alternative reality and is written entirely in blocks of 100 words. Andrei Kurkov, author of 'Death and the Penquin' (Penquin Publications), described it as a 'hologrammatic' novel, 'a series of beautifully crafted puzzles'.
The book is set in Ukraine after a war with Russia. A man has lost his memory because the Russian military have used his brain to control military satellites. He regains consciousness in a mysterious hospital-like building and begins a pilgrimage to find his past. He journeys to Kaharlyk, a town where...
The novel began on Facebook as a series of bulletins from an alternative reality and is written entirely in blocks of 100 words. Andrei Kurkov, aut...
The August Rain is PEN award winning poet and translator Stephen Komarnyckyj's first collection of original poetry. This is a book through which memory and its voices lap like waves. Whether it be in his own luminous writing, or through his translations and versions of others, Komarnyckyj communicates a quiet fire that is often 'stringent as redemption'. Sean Street, Poet and BBC Broadcaster Drawing force both from an English visionary tradition that leads right back to Caedmon and the fevered restlessness of some Slavic poetries, Stephen Komarnyckyj's is a serious poetry of life's...
The August Rain is PEN award winning poet and translator Stephen Komarnyckyj's first collection of original poetry. This is a book through which me...
