I Will Die in a Foreign LandKalani PickhartLabel: Penguin (Transworld)Description: Winner of the New York Public Library Young Lions Fiction AwardBest Book of the Year - New York Public Library Cosmopolitan Independent Book Review'Pickhart's story is powerful boldly imaginative rich in history and feeling charged with events that have occurred since it was written - and which summon up the same force of the history that compelled an American author to write about this foreign land.' The Times2014 Kyiv Ukraine. The city is poised on a knife-edge as tensions mount around a corrupt government's increasing ties to Russia. As protests erupt across the city the fates of four individuals come together. Katya is a Ukrainian-American doctor stationed at a makeshift medical clinic treating wounded protesters; Misha is an engineer originally from Pripyat near Chernobyl grieving the death of his wife; Slava is a fiery young activist whose past hardships steel her determination; Aleksandr Ivanovich a former KGB agent climbs atop a burned-out bus at Independence Square and plays the piano.In this dazzling inventive debut novel - set during the 'Revolution of Dignity' - Kalani Pickhart weaves together a rich tapestry of voices to create a moving story about beauty love and survival during tumultuous times.
