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SUMMARY:The Orphanage: A Novel - Serhiy Zhadan
LOCATION:Law offices of Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman Llp
DESCRIPTION:Saved in Palaner as: saved\n\nPalaner match: 30% · why: lots of
  people going\n\nWe will meet in person and gather afterwards to grab a bi
 te to eat/drinks.\n\nA devastating story of the struggle of civilians caug
 ht up in the conflict in eastern Ukraine\nChosen as one of “Six Books to R
 ead for Context on Ukraine” by the New York Times\nSelected by Publishers 
 Weekly as one of the “20 Best Books of 2021”\n“Powerful . . . For those wh
 o want a glimpse of what life will be like in Ukraine for years to come\, 
 The Orphanage offers a frightening glimpse.”—Bill Marx\, Arts Fuse\nIf eve
 ry war needs its master chronicler\, Ukraine has Serhiy Zhadan\, one of Eu
 rope’s most promising novelists. Recalling the brutal landscape of The Roa
 d and the wartime storytelling of A Farewell to Arms\, The Orphanage is a 
 searing novel that excavates the human collateral damage wrought by the on
 going conflict in eastern Ukraine. When hostile soldiers invade a neighbor
 ing city\, Pasha\, a thirty-five-year-old Ukrainian language teacher\, set
 s out for the orphanage where his nephew Sasha lives\, now in occupied ter
 ritory. Venturing into combat zones\, traversing shifting borders\, and fo
 rging uneasy alliances along the way\, Pasha realizes where his true loyal
 ties lie in an increasingly desperate fight to rescue Sasha and bring him 
 home.\nWritten with a raw intensity\, this is a deeply personal account of
  violence that will be remembered as the definitive novel of the war in Uk
 raine.
URL:https://www.meetup.com/the-russian-lit-book-club-of-dc/events/315203841
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