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Authors: Anatoliy Dimarov, Yevhen Hutsalo, Olena Zvychayna
A new book of Ukrainian short fiction in English translation: A Hunger
Most Cruel was released by Language Lanterns Publications the
first week of November 2002.
Intended for the general reader, this book features the works of three
authors who brought their literary talents to bear on the terror-famine
that ravaged Soviet Ukrainian territories during the period of forced
collectivization. The juxtaposition of their complementary perspectives
and the unflinching honesty of their depictions of the horrific events
around which their narratives are constructed create a compelling set
of vivid, disturbing, and haunting images of the human toll that this
ideologically motivated artificial famine exacted.
The short fiction in this book first appeared in Ukrainian in a
variety of sources.
The translator, Dr. Roma Franko, selected readable and
inherently interesting works that provide an overview of the terror-famine
for the general reader, thereby complementing the growing body of scholarly
and journalistic publications on this tragic period in Ukrainian history.
The book was already at the editing stage when it was discovered
that the Dimarov story "The Thirites" had already been translated by Juri
Tkach and published in a slim volume entitled "In Stalin's Shadow" by Bayda
Books, Melbourne, Australia, in 1989.
ISBN 0-968399-7-X; 288 pp.
Price in Canada: $12.95 plus GST; outside Canada: US$10.95.
Book is softback.
The 7% GST applies only to sales in Canada. We have a commercial
shipping agreement with Canada Post, so the postage is quite
reasonable. In the case of individuals or groups involved in the
promotion and dissemination of Ukrainian literature, we defray or
absorb the shipping charges.
As indicated on our web site: www.languagelanterns.com, we have
shipped, at our cost, sets of "Women's Voices in Ukrainian Literature"
series to all the (44) universities and pedagical institutes in Ukraine
that house a department of English, and have donated sets to numerous
public and institutional libraries in Canada, and a few in the USA.
Our purpose in establishing Language Lanterns Publications was to
make Ukrainian literature in English translation available to English
readers, and We have found a particularly receptive audience among
individuals with Ukrainian roots who do not read Ukrainian or find
nineteenth- and twentieth-century Ukrainian writing difficult to understand
and appreciate.
Additional information about Language Lanterns Publications, other titles,
retailers, and on-line orders check www.languagelanterns.com or contact
Sonia Morris, Business Manager.
Sonia Morris, Business Manager
Language Lanterns Publications
2298-130A Street,
Surrey British Columbia. V4A 8Y5
CANADA
PHONE: 604-538-9832
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