The Face of Fire

von Oleksii Nikitin

400 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

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.

• Reihe: Harvard Library of Ukrainian Literature
• Themen: Biographie, Literatur und Literaturwissenschaft Geschichte und Kritik Literaturwissenschaft, allgemein
• ISBN: 9780674304215
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 29.09.2026
• Größe: 203 x 127 mm
• Verlag: Harvard University Press
• Übersetzung: Catherine O'Neil, Dominique Hoffmann