{"product_id":"i-will-die-in-a-foreign-land","title":"I Will Die in a Foreign Land","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner of the New York Public Library Young Lions Award\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBest Book of the Year -New York Public Library, Cosmopolitan, Independent Book Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"I tore through I Will Die in a Foreign Land... nothing has given me such a profound impression of what Ukrainians have endured as this intensely moving novel.\" Ron Charles, \u003ci\u003eWashington Post\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn 1913, a Russian ballet incited a riot in Paris at the new Theatre de Champs-Elysees. \"Only a Russian could do that,\" says Aleksandr Ivanovich. \"Only a Russian could make the whole world go mad.\" \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA century later, in November 2013, thousands of Ukrainian citizens gathered at Independence Square (Euromaidan) in Kyiv to protest then-President Yanukovych's failure to sign a referendum with the European Union, opting instead to forge a closer alliance with President Vladimir Putin and Russia. The peaceful protests turned violent when military police shot live ammunition into the crowd, killing over a hundred civilians.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eI Will Die in a Foreign Land \u003c\/b\u003eis a novel that follows four individuals over the course of a volatile Ukrainian winter, as their lives are changed forever by the Euromaidan protests. Katya is a Ukrainian-American doctor stationed at a makeshift medical clinic in St. Michael's Monastery; Misha is an engineer originally from Pripyat, near Chernobyl, who has lived in Kyiv since his wife's death; Slava is a fiery young activist whose past hardships steel her determination in the face of persecution; and Aleksandr Ivanovich, a former KGB agent, climbs atop a burned-out police bus at Independence Square and plays the piano. As Katya, Misha, Slava, and Aleksandr's lives become intertwined, they each seek out love, redemption and meaning during a tumultuous and violent period. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn this dazzling debut novel, Kalani Pickhart blends narrative, folklore, journalism and Slavic history to create a moving story of beauty and love in a time of terror, I Will Die in a Foreign Land is an ambitious, intimate, and haunting portrait of human perseverance and the will to survive.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Transworld Publishers Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42275082371250,"sku":"9780857529312","price":320.0,"currency_code":"ZAR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/9191\/8002\/products\/380565_63f04d0fd27693.72824121_9780857529312.jpg?v=1677487090","url":"https:\/\/www.wordsworth.co.za\/products\/i-will-die-in-a-foreign-land","provider":"Wordsworth Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}