Books from Ukraine
113 popular ukrainian books
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The target of the Read Around The World Challenge is to read at least one book written by an author from each and every country in the world.
All books that are listed here as part of the "Read Around Europe Challenge" were written by authors from Ukraine.
Find a great book for the next part of your reading journey around the world from this book list. The following popular books have been recommended so far.
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Diary of a Madman and Other Stories: The Nose; the Carriage; the Overcoat; Taras Bulba by Nikolai Gogol EN
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Hailed by Nabokov as "the greatest artist that Russia has yet produced," Nikolai Gogol (1809-1852) left his mark as a playwright, novelist, and writer of short stories. Gogol's works remain popular with both writers and readers, who prize his originality, imaginative gifts, and sheer exuberance.
This collection offers an excellent introduction to the author's works. Opening a door to his bizarre world of broad comedy, fantasy, and social commentary, the title story portrays a petty official's mental disintegration as he struggles for the attention of the woman he love... continue
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Die Legende vom heiligen Trinker by Joseph Roth DE
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his book, one of the most haunting things that Roth ever composed, was published in 1939, the year the author died. Like Andreas, the hero of the story, Roth drank himself to death in Paris, but this is not an autobiographical confession. It is a secular miracle-tale, in which the vagrant Andreas, after living under bridges, has a series of lucky breaks that lift him briefly onto a different plane of existence. The novella is extraordinarily compressed, dry-eyed and witty, despite its melancholic subject-matter.
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Doce anillos by Yuri Andrujovich ES
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Karl-Joseph Zumbrunnen, fotógrafo austriaco con raíces galitzianas, viaja buscando sus orígenes a la Ucrania de los años noventa del siglo xx. Tras el derrumbe del imperio soviético, encuentra un estado en el que los desajustes por su nacimiento serpentean entre el nacionalismo, la nostalgia por los Habsburgo, la tentación del retorno al régimen anterior, el folklore y el embrutecimiento vulgar de un mercado sin control. Enamorado de su intérprete, viaja con ella a un antiguo observatorio, que, tras ser un centro de espionaje y un complejo deportivo soviético, es hoy un hotel en los Cárpatos. ... continue
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Duşmanca. Balul by Irène Némirovsky RO
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Cu o mama frivola si prea ocupata cu flirturile ca sa se mai ingrijeasca si de cele doua fiice, cu un tata mereu prins cu afaceri departe de casa, Gabri, eroina romanului Dușmanca, se maturizeaza mai mult la voia intimplarii. Copilaria ei are drept singur tovaras ranchiuna fata de mama, care cu vremea se transforma in dorinta de razbunare. Aproape pe nesimtite, copila taciturna si neglijata de toti devine o tinara plina de farmec, dar si egala inamicei sale dintotdeauna. De-acum, razbunarea ii e mai la indemina ca oricind, insa conflictul difuz dintre cele doua femei e dominat de sentimente co... continue
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El agente secreto by Joseph Conrad ES
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Esta novela cuenta la historia de un agente encubierto al servicio de una embajada extranjera, que se relaciona con anarquistas en la Inglaterra de 1886. Éste se ve obligado a planear un ataque terrorista y los resultados no son los que ha calculado. A los lados de esa anécdota aparentemente trivial se despliega toda una maquinaria de ironía para relatar el entorno político de entonces.
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El duelo es una de las más fascinantes novelas cortas de Joseph Conrad. Con las guerras napoleónicas como fondo romántico de esta historia, se narra en ella la contienda entablada por dos oficiales de distintos regimientos de húsares a lo largo de sus respectivas carreras militares, cuyos destinos discurren, de modo misterioso, paralelamente. La historia de este duelo, que llegaría a convertirse en leyenda dentro del ajército, tiene su origen en una oscura e imperdonable ofensa causada por el teniente D'Hubert, hombre de gran cordura y celoso de s... continue
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Endlings by Maria Reva EN
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Set in Ukraine, an eccentric scientist breeding rare snails crosses paths with sisters posing as members of the marriage industry to find their activist mother. As Russia invades, they embark on a wild journey with kidnapped bachelors and a last-of-its-kind snail. This darkly comic novel explores survival, love, and the impact of war. "This novel turns corners and tables. I love works that are smarter than I am, and this is one.”– Percival Everett, author of National Book Award-winner James "Funny and smart. This is essential reading.”– Ann Patchett, add bestselling author of Tom Lake "Pulses ... continue
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Family Ties by Clarice Lispector EN
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Tells the stories of a fearful adolescent, an angry old woman, a dog's burial, a possessive mother and her son, a businessman's dinner, and a French explorer in Africa
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Fieldwork in Ukrainian Sex by Oksana Stefanivna Zabuz︠h︡ko EN
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Called "the most influential Ukrainian book for the 15 years of independence," Oksana Zabuzhko's Fieldwork in Ukrainian Sex became an international phenomenon when it shot to number one on the Ukrainian bestseller list and remained there throughout the 1990s. The novel is narrated in first-person streams of thought by a sharp-tongued poet with an irreverently honest voice. She is visiting professor of Slavic studies at Harvard and her exposure to American values and behaviors conspires with her yearning to break free from Ukrainian conventions. In her despair over a recently ended affair, she ... continue