Black Earth
The Armchair Traveller at the BookHaus (Verlag)
978-1-914982-00-2 (ISBN)
'Will someone pay for the spilled blood? No. Nobody.' Mikhail Bulgakov wrote these words in Kiev during the turmoil of the Russian Civil War. Since then Ukrainian borders have shifted constantly and its people have suffered numerous military foreign interventions that have left them with nothing. As a state, Ukraine exists only since 1991 and what it was before is controversial among its people as well as its European neighbours. Writing in a simple and vivid way, Jens Muhling narrates his encounters with nationalists and old Communists, Crimean Tatars and Cossacks, smugglers, archaeologists and soldiers, all of whose views could hardly be more different. Black Earth connects all these stories to convey an unconventional and unfiltered view of Ukraine - a country at the crossroads of Europe and Asia and the centre of countless conflicts of opinion.
Jens Muhling was the editor of a German newspaper in Moscow for two years, and has been working for the Berlin newspaper, Der Tagesspiegel, since 2005. His features and essays on Eastern Europe have won him several awards. He is the author of A Journey into Russia (2014) and Troubled Water: A Journey Around the Black Sea (2021).
Preface xi
1. A Finger on a Map 1
Przemysl-Medyka
2. The Ant Trail 11
Medyka-Shehyni
3. The Love Story of Inge and Bohdan 21
Munich, 1959
4. The Love Story of SC-108 and SD-214 33
Lviv
5. In the Middle of Whatever 55
Dilove-Rakhiv
6. Dr. Stumpp Celebrates a Sad Christmas 77
Berdychiv, 1941
7. Scrape Your Strings Darker 91
Chernivtsi
8. The Miracle of Kalynivka 105
Vinnytsia-Kalynivka
9. At Rabbi Nachman's Grave 121
Uman
10. Philip and the Thief 149
Kiev
11. A German Village 191
Odessa-Dobroolexandrivka
12. Revenge of the Scythians 211
Simferopol-Sevastopol-Bakhchisaray
13. A Handful of Acorns 241
Kherson-Zaporizhia
14. The Love Story of
Kovyl and Tipchak 249
Donetsk-Novoazovsk
15. Friendship of Peoples Street 283
Milove
Acknowledgements 293
| Erscheinungsdatum | 12.08.2022 |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | 1 map |
| Verlagsort | London |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 129 x 189 mm |
| Themenwelt | Literatur ► Essays / Feuilleton |
| Reisen ► Reiseberichte ► Europa | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-914982-00-2 / 1914982002 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-914982-00-2 / 9781914982002 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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