Lucky Breaks - Yevgenia Belorusets, Eugene Ostashevsky (Translator)

Category: Adults, Contemporary, General Fiction, Short Story
Language: English
Keywords: Adult Fiction Contemporary Fiction Historical Fiction Literary Fiction Russia Short Stories Ukraine Ukrainian Literature Womens

Written by Yevgenia Belorusets, Eugene Ostashevsky (Translator)
Read by Alexandra Cohler
Format: MP3
Bitrate: 64 Kbps
Unabridged

Powerful, off-beat stories about women living in the shadow of the now-frozen, now-thawing war in Ukraine

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.

Length: 4 hrs and 43 mins
Release date: 11-22-22