A story collection featuring acclaimed, award-winning contemporary voices from Ukraine.

CARBIDE explores the underbelly of the Ukrainian smuggling industry. The protagonist, Tys, a merciless yet loving parody of Ukrainian nationalism, concocts a hairbrained scheme to dig a tunnel from the imaginary western Ukrainian city of Vedmediv to Hungary and force the European Union to grant Ukraine admission by smuggling its entire population into a member-country. Hilarity inevitably ensues, along with danger, when Tys, the would-be ‘Moses of Ukraine’, recruits a gang of local smugglers, including a latter-day Icarus determined to fly over the border and a femme fatale who traffics human organs. This timely novel offers a funny, yet tragic take on increasingly urgent topics such as the meaning of borders, nationalism, and European identity.

This novel tells the story of Haba Habinsky, a refugee from Donbas, who has moved to Kyiv at the beginning of the Ukrainian-Russian war. His physical displacement–​​and subsequent conscious adoption of the Ukrainian language–puts him in a state of disorientation, during which he is forced to question his beliefs. This novel illustrates how people undergo radical transformations and how these changes affect their interpersonal relationships and cultural identification.

Mondegreen: Songs about Death and Love is Rafeenko’s first novel translated into English, which was shortlisted for the Shevchenko National Prize in 2021.

With his signature humor, Ukraine’s most famous novelist presents a balanced and illuminating portrait of modern conflict along the Russian border.

This timely collection of stories is by a Sakharov Peace Prize-winning Ukrainian film director, whose political imprisonment in Russia since 2014 is an international cause célèbre.

Easy Rider meets Pedro Páramo in this darkly funny, fast-paced road novel that barrels through eastern Ukraine’s ravaged industrial landscape.