Lucky Breaks

Yevgenia Belorusets, Eugene Ostashevsky

• Publisher: Pushkin Press
• Year: 2022
• eBook ISBN:
  9781782278733
• Print ISBN:
  9781782278726

Captivating, innovative Ukrainian fiction about displaced women living in the shadow of the war with Russia

'This singular collection brings Ukraine, "the land of residual phenomena, " entirely to life' Kirkus Reviews

In Lucky Breaks, we encounter anonymous women from the margins of Ukrainian society, their lives upended by the ongoing conflict with Russia. A woman, bewildered by her broken umbrella, tries to abandon it like a sick relative; a beautiful florist suddenly disappears, her shop converted into a warehouse for propaganda; hiding out from the shelling, neighbours read horoscopes in the local paper that tell them when it's safe for them to go outside.

In stories of linguistic verve and absurdist wit, Yevgenia Belorusets writes of trauma amidst the mundane, telling surreal, unsettling tales of survival in a shattered country.

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CONTENTS

1. Title Page
2. A Note Before the Preface
4. Preface
5. Those I Met
6. A Needle in a Nightshirt
7. The Woman Who Caught Babies in a Mitt
8. March 8: The Woman Who Could Not Walk
9. Two Women on the Airplane Stairs: No One Moves (March 9, Kyiv)
10. The Woman Who Fell Sick
11. The Florist
12. The Manicurist
13. My Sister
14. Neighbor Histories
15. A Woman Finds a Job
16. The Woman with the Black, Broken Umbrella
17. The Seer of Dreams 6
18. The Lonely Woman
19. Lena in Danger
20. Chronicle of a Revolt
21. The Power of Time
22. Elena
23. The Crash
24. The Shillyshallier
25. The Stars
26. Transformations
27. Lilacs
28. A Woman at the Cosmetologist’s
29. The Sisters
30. Philosophy
31. Light Attractors
32. Three Songs of Lamentation
33. For Example
34. The Address...

Table of contents

• Title Page
• Contents
• A Note Before the Preface
• Preface
• Those I Met
• A Needle in a Nightshirt
• The Woman Who Caught Babies in a Mitt
• March 8: The Woman Who Could Not Walk
• Two Women on the Airplane Stairs: No One Moves (March 9, Kyiv)
• The Woman Who Fell Sick
• The Florist
• The Manicurist
• My Sister
• Neighbor Histories
• A Woman Finds a Job
• The Woman with the Black, Broken Umbrella
• The Seer of Dreams
• The Lonely Woman
• Lena in Danger
• Chronicle of a Revolt
• The Power of Time
• Elena
• The Crash
• The Shillyshallier
• The Stars
• Transformations
• Lilacs
• A Woman at the Cosmetologist’s
• The Sisters
• Philosophy
• Light Attractors
• Three Songs of Lamentation
• For Example
• The Address, or Sketches for an Autobiography
• The Naive Woman
• A Brief Declaration on Waiting
• Translator’s Afterword
• Acknowledgments
• Available and Coming Soon from Pushkin Press
• Copyright