True stories
Patty Pan Compote
by Olha Kari
Description
"Patty Pan Compote" is a series of reportage sketches and essays describing how a whole generation of Ukrainians lived amidst the chaos of declining Soviet Union. This book is about what it was like to live in the 90's, when "pineapple" compote was cooked from the patty pat and eggplant became the substitute for mushrooms, when everyone was gripped by a total knitting obsession due to the lack of clothes. People grew accustomed to stockpiling absolutely everything, and the first sanitary pads have just begun to change the lives of Ukrainian women. Based on her own recollections, the author tells how the punitive gastronomy of that time worked, how the pseudo-brotherly relations with other Soviet republics often manifested themselves and how Abkhazia hosted Ukrainian schoolchildren a few months before the war between Georgia and Abkhazia.
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Rights manager Olha Kari, kariolga@yahoo.com
Contact of the Ukrainian Book Institute: ubi@ubi.org.ua
Endorsements
Longlisted in "Essays" of the BBC Book of the Year Award 2021
Author Biography
Olha Kari is a Ukrainian writer and gastronomic journalist. She was born in Chernihiv and worked as a presenter and journalist on leading Ukrainian TV and radio channels (Hromanske Radio, Radio Svoboda, Breakfast with 1 + 1). Her first book, a collection of short stories about Armenia called Uncle Zaven's Fish, was published in 2019 and was included in the long list of the Ukrainian literary award LitAccent of the Year. The author's works have been awarded special prises in the Samovydets professional reporting contest: "The Other Side of the Holiday" (within the compilation of essays called “Life in the Cities”, 2019) and the Cross (within the compilation of essays called “How We Change”, 2020). Her second book “Patty Pat Compote” was shortlisted for the BBC Book of the Year 2021. Olha is a founder of the first Ukrainian-language blog Karifood writing about delicious travels around Ukraine and the world. She also contributes to the publication named "Ukrainian Week" and a number of travel magasines.
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Bibliographic Information
- Publisher Komora Publishing House
- Publication Date 2020
- Orginal LanguageUkrainian
- ISBN/Identifier 9786177286645
- Publication Country or regionUkraine
- Pages384
- ReadershipGeneral
- Publish StatusPublished
- Original Language TitleКомпот із патисонів
- Original Language AuthorsОльга Карі
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