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How the Cherry Orchard Was Cut Down, or the Long Road from Bad Ems

by Oksana Zabuzhko

Description

This book commemorates Oksana Miyakovska-Radysh (1919–2020), a long-term archivist of the Ukrainian Free Academy of Sciences (UVAN) in New York. Her greatness lies in serving her cause with absolute freedom from complexes imposed by Russia and its culture. Reading this book is like flipping through an old family album in Miyakovska-Radysh's company. The book reveals numerous secrets. It turns out that Chekhov's Three Sisters were not just a figment of the writer's imagination. Moreover, Chekhov himself was a young man from then Ukrainian Taganrog, fond of his native Ukrainian language, theatre and one of the three sisters. The book also explores the connection between the "new woman" in Russian literature and the 19th-century Ukrainian women's movement and looks into the past mistakes that still have repercussions for Ukrainians today.

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Author Biography

Oksana Zabuzhko (born in 1960 in Lutsk) is a renowned Ukrainian writer, author of more than twenty books. She studied philosophy at Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv. In the early 1990s, she taught in the United States at Harvard, Pennsylvania and Pittsburgh University. Her novel Fieldwork in Ukrainian Sex has been hailed as “the most influential Ukrainian book since independence.” Zabuzhko’s works have been widely translated. She is the winner of numerous prestigious awards and prizes, including the Angelus Prize, the Shevchenko National Prize, and the BBC Ukraine Book of the Year Award.

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Bibliographic Information

  • Publisher Komora Publishing House
  • Publication Date 2021
  • Orginal LanguageUkrainian
  • ISBN/Identifier 9786177286706
  • Publication Country or regionUkraine
  • Pages96
  • ReadershipGeneral
  • Publish StatusPublished
  • Original Language TitleЯк рубали вишневий сад, або Довга дорога з Бад-Емсу
  • Original Language AuthorsЗабужко Оксана

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