The Orphanage: A Novel
Serhiy Zhadan, one of Europe's most promising novelists, is the master chronicler of every conflict. The Orphanage is a harrowing novel that excavates the human collateral damage produced by the current conflict in eastern Ukraine, recalling the bleak terrain of The Road and the wartime storytelling of A Farewell to Arms. When enemy forces storm a nearby city, Pasha, a 35-year-old Ukrainian language teacher, heads out for the orphanage where his nephew Sasha currently lives, which is now in seized territory. Pasha finds where his true loyalties lay in an increasingly desperate quest to rescue Sasha and return him home as he ventures into combat zones, crosses shifting borders, and forges difficult relationships along the way.
This is a highly personal narrative of brutality, written with raw passion, that will be remembered as the quintessential novel of the Ukrainian war.
