Harvest Truce - A Play

In Serhiy Zhadan's tragicomedy A Harvest Truce, brothers Anton and Tolik reunite at their family home to bury their mother. Isolated without power or running water on the front line of a war ignited by Russian-backed separatists in eastern Ukraine, the brothers' best hope for success and survival lies in the declared cease fire-the harvest truce.

Info autore

Serhiy Zhadan is a globally recognized poet and writer, translator, performer, and activist, and one of the best-known Ukrainian cultural figures. His numerous literary and cultural awards include Book of the Year, Ukraine; BBC Ukraine Book of the Year; Hubert Burda Prize; Joseph Conrad-Korzeniowski Literary Award; Brücke Berlin Prize; Jan Michalski Prize for Literature; Angelus Central European Literature Award; Derek Walcott Prize for Poetry, and many others.Nina Murray is a poet and an award-winning translator of Ukrainian literature, including works by Oksana Zabuzhko, Oksana Lutsyshyna, Serhiy Zhadan, and Lesia Ukrainka. She is the author of several poetry collections and a career member of the U.S. Foreign Service.

Riassunto

In Serhiy Zhadan’s tragicomedy A Harvest Truce, brothers Anton and Tolik reunite at their family home to bury their mother. Isolated without power or running water on the front line of a war ignited by Russian-backed separatists in eastern Ukraine, the brothers’ best hope for success and survival lies in the declared cease fire—the harvest truce.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Serhiy Zhadan, Zhadan Serhiy
• Con la collaborazione di: Nina Murray (Traduzione), Murray Nina (Traduzione)
• Editore: Harvard University Press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 01.07.2024
• EAN: 9780674291997
• ISBN: 978-0-674-29199-7
• Pagine: 140
• Serie: Harvard Library of Ukrainian Literature
• Categorie: Narrativa > Romanzi; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Scienze linguistiche e letterarie > Letteratura generale e comparata; War & combat fiction, Anthologies: general, Anthologies (non-poetry), War, combat and military adventure fiction, Plays, Playscripts, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / European / Eastern, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Russian & Soviet, DRAMA / European / Eastern