The devastating history of the struggle of civilians involved in the conflict in eastern Ukraine.
"A terrifying, brutal vision of modern-day eastern Ukraine under siege ... with a poetic sense of lyricism ... Zhadan unflinchingly portrays the country's ruin and its people's passionate determination to survive," - Publishers Weekly.
If every war needs its unrivaled chronicler, then in Ukraine Serhiy Zhadan is one of the most promising novelists in Europe. Reminiscent of the brutal landscapes of "The Road" and the military prose "A Farewell to Arms", "Internat" is a searing novel that exposes the damage caused to humanity by the ongoing conflict in eastern Ukraine. When enemy soldiers invade a nearby town, Pasha, a thirty-five-year-old Ukrainian language teacher, goes to the boarding school where his nephew Sashko lives, who is currently in the occupied territory. Heading into war zones, crossing shifting borders and creating uneasy alliances along the way, Pasha realizes what his true devotion lies in and leads an increasingly desperate fight to save Saško and return him home.
Written with undisguised passion, the writer's new novel is a deeply personal account of violence, which will be remembered as the most outstanding work on the war on the territory of Ukraine.
