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Sex in space the assembly of the dead and other stories
Sex in space the assembly of the dead and other stories




Nearly everyone I met on my trip-journalists, students, cultural liaisons-seemed to know of someone who had been injured or killed in the protests, or who had joined the volunteer army fighting the separatists in the east.Īs the visiting author of two books called “The Possessed” and “ The Idiot,” I got to hear a certain amount about people’s opinions of Dostoyevsky. In 2014, security forces had killed a hundred protesters at Kyiv’s Independence Square, and Russian-backed separatists had declared two mini-republics in the Donbas. On the way, I stopped in Kyiv and Lviv: cities I had only ever read about, first in Russian novels, and later in the international news.

sex in space the assembly of the dead and other stories

My book “The Possessed”-a memoir I had published in 2010, about studying Russian literature-had recently been translated into Russian, along with “The Idiot,” an autobiographical novel, and I was headed to Russia as a cultural emissary, through an initiative of PEN America and the U.S.

sex in space the assembly of the dead and other stories sex in space the assembly of the dead and other stories

The first and only time I visited Ukraine was in 2019.






Sex in space the assembly of the dead and other stories