The Face of Fire

About the author

Oleksii Nikitin, a former physicist and journalist, is one of the most prominent Russian-language writers in Ukraine today. His novels include Istemi, Madzhong, Victory Park, Sanitar s Institutskoi, and Ot litsa ognia.Catherine O’Neil is Associate Professor of Russian at the United States Naval Academy and translator of Juliusz Slowacki’s Agamemnon’s Tomb: A Polish Oresteia.Dominique Hoffman has taught courses in Russian language, history and culture. Her previous translations include Yaroslav Hrytsak’s The Forging of the Nation and Olena Stiazhkina’s Cecil the Lion Had to Die.

Product details

• Authors: Oleksii Nikitin
• Assisted by: Dominique Hoffmann (Translation), Catherine O'Neil (Translation), O'Neil Catherine (Translation)
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Release: 13.01.2026
• EAN: 9780674304215
• ISBN: 978-0-674-30421-5
• No. of pages: 400
• Series: Harvard Library of Ukrainian Literature
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION / War & Military, Sagas, FICTION / Sagas, Historical fiction, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, War & combat fiction, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Second World War, War, combat and military adventure fiction, FICTION / Historical / 20th Century / General, Family saga / generational saga fiction, Ukrainian novel, Ukrainian-Jewish