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Serhiy Zhadan
Voroshilovgrad
Voroshilovgrad
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A city-dwelling executive heads home to take over his brother’s gas station after his mysterious disappearance, but all he finds at home are mysteries and ghosts. The bleak industrial landscape of now-war-torn eastern Ukraine sets the stage for Voroshilovgrad, the Soviet era name of the Ukrainian city of Luhansk, mixing magical realism and exhilarating road novel in poetic, powerful, and expressive prose.
Translated from the Ukrainian by Reilly Costigan-Humes and Isaac Wheeler.
- Winner of the 2014 Jan Michalski Prize for Literature
- Winner of the BBC Ukraine’s Book of the Decade Award in December 2014
- One of World Literature Today’s Recommended Summer Reads 2016
- Author: Serhiy Zhadan
- Publisher: Deep Vellum
- Publication: May 24, 2016
- ISBN: 9781941920305
- Size: 5 in. x 8.5 in.
- 456 pages
- Translated by Isaac Wheeler and Reilly Costigan-Humes
- Serhiy Zhadan is one of the key voices in contemporary Ukrainian literature He has twice won BBC Ukraine’s Book of the Year (2006 and 2010) and has twice been nominated as Russian GQ’s “Man of the Year” in their writers category. Zhadan has translated poetry from German, English, Belarusian, and Russian, from poets such as Paul Celan and Charles Bukowski. In 2013, he participated in Euromaidan demonstrations in Kharkiv, and in 2014, he was assaulted outside the administration building in Kharkiv, an incident discussed in The New Yorker. He lives and works in Kharkiv.
- Reilly Costigan-Humes is a graduate of Haverford College, where he studied Russian literature and culture. He lives and works in Moscow and translates literature from the Ukrainian and Russian.
- Isaac Wheeler received an MA in Russian Translation from Columbia University and is also a graduate of Haverford College, where he studied Russian Language and English Literature. Wheeler lives in Brooklyn, NY, where he is a professional business and literary translator.
