Orphanage

If every war needs its master chronicler, Ukraine has Serhiy Zhadan, one of Europe's most promising novelists. When hostile soldiers invade a neighboring city, Pasha, a thirty-five-year-old Ukrainian language teacher, sets out for the orphanage where his nephew Sasha lives, now in occupied territory. Recalling the brutal landscape of The Road and the wartime storytelling of A Farewell to Arms, The Orphanage is a searing novel that excavates the human collateral damage wrought by the ongoing conflict in eastern Ukraine.

Venturing into combat zones, traversing shifting borders, and forging uneas