02504cam a2200313 4500 599473284 TxAuBib 20220602120000.0 ||||||s2021||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9780300258158 0300258151 B08T1D2F4D Amazon 30e14ef8-fdde-428e-9c8d-03e816ca1580 OverDrive (Reserve ID) 6017970 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Zhadan, Serhiy. The Orphanage [OverDrive] : A Novel. Yale University Press, 2021. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read. Format: OverDrive Adobe EPUB eBook, Filesize: 1983kB. Literature. HTML:<b>A devastating story of the struggle of civilians caught up in the conflict in eastern Ukraine</b> <p><b>"A nightmarish, raw vision of contemporary eastern Ukraine under siege. . . . With a poet's sense of lyricism . . . [Zhadan] unblinkingly reveals a country's devastation and its people's passionate determination to survive."<i>Publishers Weekly</i>, starred review</b></p> <p>Recalling the brutal landscape of <i>The Road</i> and the wartime storytelling of <i>A Farewell to Arms</i>, <i>The Orphanage</i> is a searing novel that excavates the human collateral damage wrought by the ongoing conflict in eastern Ukraine. When hostile soldiers invade a neighboring city, Pasha, a thirty-five-year-old Ukrainian language teacher, sets out for the orphanage where his nephew Sasha lives, now in occupied territory. Venturing into combat zones, traversing shifting borders, and forging uneasy alliances along the way, Pasha realizes where his true loyalties lie in an increasingly desperate fight to rescue Sasha and bring him home.</p> <p>Written with a raw intensity, this is a deeply personal account of violence that will be remembered as the definitive novel of the war in Ukraine.</p>. Fiction. Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2022-07-31 20:00:03. https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=30e14ef8-fdde-428e-9c8d-03e816ca1580&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=30e14ef8-fdde-428e-9c8d-03e816ca1580&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=30e14ef8-fdde-428e-9c8d-03e816ca1580&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read)