The Face of Fire

Erscheinungsjahr 2026
ISBN: 978-0-674-30421-5
Verlag: Harvard University Press

Buch, Englisch, 400 Seiten, Format (B × H): 127 mm x 203 mm

Reihe: Harvard Library of Ukrainian Literature

In the wake of the horrors of civil war, the Holodomor, and Stalin’s purges, the young Jewish boxer Ilya Goldinov and his wife, Feliksa, are looking ahead to a brighter future in Kyiv. Ilya, the top heavyweight boxer of the Ukrainian Soviet Republic, is primed for victory as champion of the entire Soviet Union. Feliksa, a country girl and a star athlete in track, is deep in training for a major race. Then the Nazi invasion in the summer of 1941 changes everything. The Face of Fire offers a tapestry of Ukrainian life under the brutal Soviet and Nazi regimes—all based on declassified People’s Commissariat for Internal Affairs (NKVD) files and Oleksii Nikitin’s family archive.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Nikitin, Oleksii

Weitere Mitwirkende

O'Neil, Catherine

Hoffmann, Dominique

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Prosa, Erzählung, Roman, Prosaautoren

Über Autor(innen)

Nikitin, Oleksii
Oleksii Nikitin, a former physicist and journalist, is one of the most prominent Russian-language writers in Ukraine today. His novels include <i>Istemi, Madzhong, Victory Park, Sanitar s Institutskoi,</i> and <i>Ot litsa ognia</i>.

Hoffmann, Dominique
Dominique Hoffman has taught courses in Russian language, history and culture. Her previous translations include Yaroslav Hrytsak’s <i>The Forging of the Nation</i> and Olena Stiazhkina’s <i>Cecil the Lion Had to Die.</i>

O'Neil, Catherine
Catherine O’Neil is Associate Professor of Russian at the United States Naval Academy and translator of Juliusz Slowacki’s <i>Agamemnon’s Tomb: A Polish Oresteia</i>.