Orfanato

2014. Russia has invaded the Ukrainian region of Donbas. Amid the destruction caused by the war, Pasha, a thirty-five-year-old teacher, searches for his thirteen-year-old nephew who has been trapped in an orphanage on the other side of the war front. Pasha is forced to venture into combat zones, traversing shifting borders and forging uneasy alliances along the way in a space where civilian life has collapsed. And he realizes where his true loyalties lie in an increasingly desperate fight to rescue his nephew Sasha and bring him home. If every war needs its master chronicler, Ukraine has Serhiy Zhadan, recipient of the German Booksellers Peace Prize and considered by Timothy Snyder to be one of the most important active cultural creators in Europe. Following in the footsteps of the apocalyptic landscape of The Road and the war narrative of A Farewell to Arms, Orphanage is an unforgettable novel that crudely and compassionately shows the human damage caused by the conflict unleashed by Russian aggression.