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Radio Night

Radio Night

by Yuri Andrukhovych, translated from the Ukrainian by Mark Andryczyk

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Winner of the Heinrich Heine Prize

Yuri Andrukhovych is the master stylist of contemporary Ukrainian literature, and his Radio Night is the story of Yosyp Rotsky, a legendary pianist who played at the barricades when revolution rocked his long-oppressed country, and whose life in exile is jeopardized when he is implicated in the death of the dictator of his country. The shady Regime and the insatiable Mob want his head, and Rotsky and his pal, the wise raven Edgar, are on the run, traversing updated mazes from the bad old days while doing their best to maneuver through today's social media-saturated world. Meanwhile, Rotsky's buddy, the mysterious Servus, keeps rolling up at the most (in)opportune times. Radio Night explores a world in upheaval, reverberating between rebirth and apocalypse, loyalty and betrayal, heaven and hell. It is a wild performance, steeped from beginning to end in music. It even comes with a playlist.

Additional Book Information

Series: New York Review Books
ISBN: 9798896230168
Pages: 448
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Praise

When I think about Ukrainian literature today, with all the grief and struggle it is going through, the voice of Yuri Andrukhovych comes to mind—strikingly original, witty, and poignant. Andrukhovych's work speaks to the traditions of Ukrainian modernism, and it also signifies the now, fully engaging with the tasks of literature in a country at war. A wit and a wiseman, a public intellectual and a bookworm, Andrukhovch embodies the confluence of poetics and politics in today's challenging world.
—Polina Barskova, author of Living Pictures

In this action-packed picaresque novel, Andrukhovych gives himself room for rapid twists and turns, but also for fairy-tale-like effects.... Under the wild, chaotic, sometimes comical shell is a bitter, black core, a universal sadness about the victims of history, reminiscent of Walter Benjamin.
—Richard Kämmerlings, Die Welt

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