# I Will Die in a Foreign Land

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- Authors: [Kalani Pickhart](https://www.bookquiver.com/kalani-pickhart)
- Publisher: transworld_digital
- Medium: audio
- Length: 8 h 5 min
- Narrated by: Adam Barr
- ISBN: 978-15-2990-521-2
- Published: 2022-09-22
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Audiobook · 8 h 5 min

## Description

Brought to you by Penguin. Winner of the New York Public Library Young Lions Award Best Book of the Year -New York Public Library, Cosmopolitan, Independent Book Review In 1913, a Russian ballet incited a riot in Paris at the new Théâtre de Champs-Elysées. " Only a Russian could do that," says Aleksandr Ivanovich. " Only a Russian could make the whole world go mad." A century later, in November 2013, thousands of Ukrainian citizens gathered at Independence Square (Euromaidan) in Kyiv to protest then-President Yanukovych's failure to sign a referendum with the European Union, opting instead to forge a closer alliance with President Vladimir Putin and Russia. The peaceful protests turned violent when military police shot live ammunition into the crowd, killing over a hundred civilians. I Will Die in a Foreign Land is a novel that follows four individuals over the course of a volatile Ukrainian winter, as their lives are changed forever by the Euromaidan protests. Katya is a Ukrainian-American doctor stationed at a makeshift medical clinic in St. Michael's Monastery; Misha is an engineer originally from Pripyat, near Chernobyl, who has lived in Kyiv since his wife's death; Slava is a fiery young activist whose past hardships steel her determination in the face of persecution; and Aleksandr Ivanovich, a former KGB agent, climbs atop a burned-out police bus at Independence Square and plays the piano. As Katya, Misha, Slava, and Aleksandr's lives become intertwined, they each seek out love, redemption and meaning during a tumultuous and violent period. In this dazzling debut novel, Kalani Pickhart blends narrative, folklore, journalism and Slavic history to create a moving story of beauty and love in a time of terror, I Will Die in a Foreign Land is an ambitious, intimate, and haunting portrait of human perseverance and the will to survive. " I tore through I Will Die in a Foreign Land... nothing has given me such a profound impression of what Ukrainians have endured as this intensely moving novel." Ron Charles, Washington Post © Kalani Pickhart 2022 (P) Penguin Audio 2022