Description
In The Hamlet Called America, Khrystia Vengryniuk has brilliantly rendered the Ukrainian village of America. This unforgettable portrait of eccentric characters living, loving, and losing together— including a young woman who wants nothing more than to give birth, a mysteriously mystical loner, and a cranky great-grandmother who curses everyone— captures what can happen when the perceived independence of isolation becomes a vulnerability.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Khrystia Vengryniuk is an award-winning writer, literary critic, and painter from Chernivtsi. She is the author of the poetry collections Long Eyes and About My Old White Drake, the short story collection To Be Born and Die in Shoes, and multiple children’s books. She is the cofounder of Chorni Vivtsi, one of Ukraine’s leading publishing houses for children. Her work has appeared in English translation in Translation Review, Asymptote, Los Angeles Review of Books, Guernica, Trafika Europe, The Dewdrop, The Kyiv Independent, and Apofenie.
ABOUT THE TRANSLATORS
Dmytro Kyyan is a Ukrainian-American writer, editor, and translator originally from Kharkiv. From the 1990s to the early aughts, he was the editor in chief of Foto & Video magazine, and under his direction, it became the leading publication in photography throughout Eastern Europe. He cotranslated, with Kate Tsurkan, Oleh Sentsov’s Diary of a Hunger Striker.
Kate Tsurkan is a reporter at The Kyiv Independent, where she writes mainly about culture-related topics. Her writing and translations have also appeared in publications such as The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, Harper’s Magazine, Los Angeles Review of Books, The Washington Post, and The Guardian. She is the founding editor of Apofenie.
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