War & combat fiction
THE DREAMTIME
by Mstyslav Chernov
Description
The Dreamtime is a novel, written by Mstyslav Chernov, a war reporter working for Associate Press, and released in 2021 by Sammit-Knyha Publishing House. “Dreamtime” is a 460-page fusion of a documentary and a psychological thriller. The book is based on real events and has been written over an eight-year period. Drawing on the Indigenous Australians’ concept of the dreamtime, the novel explores a social collective experience of war and conflict and is based on real events witnessed by the author during the war in eastern Ukraine and the migration crisis in southern Europe over the recent years. It comprises four intertwined plots spanning in space from Ukraine’s war-torn Donbas to southern Europe and southeast Asia, tied together by themes of existential conflict and the blurred line between reality and dreams. The novel is published in Ukrainian. It was well-received by critics and praised for its realism in depicting war, for its creative literary depiction of how dreams reflect the psyche, and for its "serious" and "skillful” prose. The book was nominated for the BBC News Ukraine Book of the Year Award.
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Author Biography
Mstyslav Chernov, an acclaimed Ukrainian journalist, filmmaker, war correspondent and writer, he works for The Associated Press, he is the laureate of the Gongadze Premium 2022 from Pen Ukraine. A two-time winner of the RTS Television Journalism Awards, he has earned particular plaudits for his coverage of Ukraine’s Maidan revolution in 2013-14, the war in eastern Ukraine, and notably the downing of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17, the Syrian civil war, the Battle of Mosul in Iraq, and recent conflicts in Libya, Gaza Strip and Nagorno-Karabakh. He has also covered civil unrest in Turkey, Hong Kong, Belarus, Catalonia, France, as well as the European migration crisis, the COVID-19 outbreak in Ukraine and the global environmental crisis over the Arctic Circle. His pictures were published by The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Guardian, The Independent, The Daily Telegraph. His videos were broadcast by BBC, CNN, Al Jazeera, EuroNews, Sky News, Fox News Channel, Rai News 24 etc. He is the winner of numerous Ukrainian and international competitions. Founder and director of Ukrainian Association of Professional Photographers (UAPP).
Bibliographic Information
- Publisher Publishing Summit-Book
- Publication Date 2021
- Orginal LanguageUkrainian
- ISBN/Identifier 9789669861962
- Publication Country or regionUkraine
- Pages460
- ReadershipGeneral
- Publish StatusPublished
- Original Language TitleЧаси сновидінь
- Original Language AuthorsМстислав Чернов
