{"product_id":"i-will-die-in-a-foreign-land-book-kalani-pickhart-9780857529305","title":"I Will Die in a Foreign Land","description":"Keynote Set during the 2014 revolution in Ukraine, a unique and dazzling debut fiction - that has already gained praise and prizes - that combines history, folklore, oral history and news reports to give a human face and understanding to the complexity of today's conflict.  Winner of the New York Public Library Young Lions Award Best Book of the Year -New York Public Library, Cosmopolitan, Independent Book Review  \"I tore through I Will Die in a Foreign Land... nothing has given me such a profound impression of what Ukrainians have endured as this intensely moving novel.\" Ron Charles, Washington Post  In 1913, a Russian ballet incited a riot in Paris at the new The tre de Champs-Elysees. \"Only a Russian could do that,\" says Aleksandr Ivanovich. \"Only a Russian could make the whole world go mad.\"  A century later, in November 2013, thousands of Ukrainian citizens gathered at Independence Square (Euromaidan) in Kyiv to protest then-President Yanukovych's failure to sign a referendum with the European Union, opting instead to forge a closer alliance with President Vladimir Putin and Russia. The peaceful protests turned violent when military police shot live ammunition into the crowd, killing over a hundred civilians.  I Will Die in a Foreign Land is a novel that follows four individuals over the course of a volatile Ukrainian winter, as their lives are changed forever by the Euromaidan protests. Katya is a Ukrainian-American doctor stationed at a makeshift medical clinic in St. Michael's Monastery; Misha is an engineer originally from Pripyat, near Chernobyl, who has lived in Kyiv since his wife's death; Slava is a fiery young activist whose past hardships steel her determination in the face of persecution; and Aleksandr Ivanovich, a former KGB agent, climbs atop a burned-out police bus at Independence Square and plays the piano. As Katya, Misha, Slava, and Aleksandr's lives become intertwined, they each seek out love, redemption and meaning during a tumultuous and violent period.  In this dazzling debut novel, Kalani Pickhart blends narrative, folklore, journalism and Slavic history to create a moving story of beauty and love in a time of terror, I Will Die in a Foreign Land is an ambitious, intimate, and haunting portrait of human perseverance and the will to survive.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49519996141841,"sku":"GOR012585813","price":6.69,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":49745297506577,"sku":"NGR9780857529305","price":0.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50624501285137,"sku":"GOR013504082","price":6.69,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52432660463889,"sku":"NLS9780857529305","price":0.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0857529307.jpg?v=1751202722","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/de-de\/products\/i-will-die-in-a-foreign-land-buch-kalani-pickhart-9780857529305","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}