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The Ukraine Audiobook, by Artem Chapeye Play Audiobook Sample

The Ukraine Audiobook

The Ukraine Audiobook, by Artem Chapeye Play Audiobook Sample
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Read By: Daniel Henning Publisher: Tantor Audio Listen Time: at 1.0x Speed 5.83 hours at 1.5x Speed 4.38 hours at 2.0x Speed Release Date: April 2024 Format: Unabridged Audiobook ISBN: 9798855529562

Quick Stats About this Audiobook

Total Audiobook Chapters:

26

Longest Chapter Length:

46:45 minutes

Shortest Chapter Length:

08:21 minutes

Average Chapter Length:

20:24 minutes

Audiobooks by this Author:

1

Publisher Description

The Ukraine is a collection of twenty-six pieces that deliberately blur the line between nonfiction and fiction, conjuring the essence of a beloved country through its tastes, smells, and sounds, its small towns and big cities, its people and their compassion and indifference, simplicities and complications.

In the title story, Chapeye facetiously plays with the English misuse of the article "the" in reference to Ukraine, capturing a country as perceived from the outside, by foreigners. That pseudo-kitsch, often historically shallow, and not-quite-real Ukraine resonates because of its highly engaging and brutally candid snapshots of ordinary lives and typical places. In "One Soul per Home" an elderly woman laments that the men are dying and the young are leaving for the cities, changing the face of her small town; In "The Unscrupulous Spirit of the Provinces," a couple of unspecified gender get stoned and go to church; and in "False Premises," a man romanticizes his younger years working for a Soviet fishing fleet only to reconstruct his nostalgia in the face of Putin's Russia.

The Ukraine conveys to listeners a place that Chapeye and his countrymen are currently fighting for with their lives. The book features a preface by the author, which he composed on his phone from the front lines.

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