Lucky Breaks
In Lucky Breaks, we encounter anonymous women from the margins ofUkrainian society, their lives upended by the ongoing conflict with Russia. Awoman, bewildered by her broken umbrella, tries to abandon it like a sick relative;a beautiful florist suddenly disappears, her shop converted into awarehouse for propaganda; hiding out from the shelling, neighbours readhoroscopes in the local paper that tell them when it's safe for them to go outside.
In stories of linguistic verve and absurdist wit, Yevgenia Belorusets writes oftrauma amidst the mundane, telling surreal, unsettling tales of survival in ashattered country.
'A daring, unsettling book about displaced women telling luminous storiesto survive the darkness that surrounds them' - Jenny Offill, author ofWeather
Yevgenia Belorusets is a Ukrainian writer, journalist, artist,and photographer who lives between Kyiv and Berlin. Herphotographic work calls attention to the more vulnerablesections of Ukrainian society - queer families, out-of-workcoal miners, the Roma, people living in the war zone in theEast - and was shown in the Ukrainian pavilion at the 56thVenice Biennale. She is a member of the Hudrada curatorialcollective and cofounder of Prostory, a journal for literature,art, and politics. She was awarded the 2020 HKW InternationalLiterature Award in Germany for Lucky Breaks, herfirst work of fiction.
Author: Yevgenia Belorusets
Format: Paperback, 208 pages, 129mm x 198mm
Published: 2022, Pushkin Press, United Kingdom
Genre: Short Stories & Fiction Anthologies
In Lucky Breaks, we encounter anonymous women from the margins ofUkrainian society, their lives upended by the ongoing conflict with Russia. Awoman, bewildered by her broken umbrella, tries to abandon it like a sick relative;a beautiful florist suddenly disappears, her shop converted into awarehouse for propaganda; hiding out from the shelling, neighbours readhoroscopes in the local paper that tell them when it's safe for them to go outside.
In stories of linguistic verve and absurdist wit, Yevgenia Belorusets writes oftrauma amidst the mundane, telling surreal, unsettling tales of survival in ashattered country.
'A daring, unsettling book about displaced women telling luminous storiesto survive the darkness that surrounds them' - Jenny Offill, author ofWeather
Yevgenia Belorusets is a Ukrainian writer, journalist, artist,and photographer who lives between Kyiv and Berlin. Herphotographic work calls attention to the more vulnerablesections of Ukrainian society - queer families, out-of-workcoal miners, the Roma, people living in the war zone in theEast - and was shown in the Ukrainian pavilion at the 56thVenice Biennale. She is a member of the Hudrada curatorialcollective and cofounder of Prostory, a journal for literature,art, and politics. She was awarded the 2020 HKW InternationalLiterature Award in Germany for Lucky Breaks, herfirst work of fiction.