Oksana Sabuschko Book order

Winner of the 2020 Ramaswamy prize for works in translation, this volume collects poems, an essay, and an interview with one of Ukraine's most central figures of contemporary literature. Zabuzhko's first novel is still recognized as the "bible of Ukrainian feminism." She has published a dozen more books, including three story collections, three volumes of essays, four books of poetry, a prize-winning study on landmark Ukrainian author, playwright, and thinker Lesia Ukrainka (1871-1913), and The Museum of Abandoned Secrets, a prize-winning novel which has been translated into six languages. Her forthcoming collection of short stories, Your Ad Could Go Here, will be available in May 2020, and her next novel, Cassandra's Banquet, will debut in Winter 2021.

Oksana Zabuzhko, author of “the most influential Ukrainian book in the fifteen years since independence,” Fieldwork in Ukrainian Sex, returns with a gripping short story collection. Oksana Zabuzhko, Ukraine’s leading public intellectual, is called upon to make sense of the unthinkable reality of our times. In this breathtaking short story collection, she turns the concept of truth over in her hands like a beautifully crafted pair of gloves. From the triumph of the Orange Revolution, which marked the start of the twenty-first century, to domestic victories in matchmaking, sibling rivalry, and even tennis, Zabuzhko manages to shock the reader by juxtaposing things as they are—inarguable, visible to the naked eye—with how things could be, weaving myth and fairy tale into pivotal moments just as we weave a satisfying narrative arc into our own personal mythologies. At once intimate and worldly, these stories resonate with Zabuzhko’s irreverent and prescient voice, echoing long after reading.

In 2003, television journalist Daryna Goshchynska unearths a worn photograph of Olena Dovgan, a member of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army killed in 1947 by Stalin's secret police, and unwittingly opens a door to the abandoned secrets of three disparate women.