NEAR THE WAR. Odessa. February 2022 - lute 2023.

Maria Galina

10,00 

Michael Greenberg Publishers, 2023

ISBN 9659301464, 9789659301461

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Мария Галина

Maria Galina

Maria Semyonovna Galina is a shortlisted finalist for the Dar Prize 2025. Poet, writer, critic and translator.

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Михаил Эдельштейн

Mikhail Edelstein

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“The remarkable poets Maria Galina and her husband Arkady Shtypel left Moscow for Ukraine, Odessa, a few days before the full-scale invasion, anticipating its inevitability. Galina's diary is a record not only of the external circumstances of the first war year, but also of the process of the poet's change of language and culture, of the change of identity. And a statement of how the crack - not only between countries, but also between yesterday's good acquaintances who found themselves on opposite sides of the border - widens and becomes an abyss. Still, the main internal plot of the book is the man's return to his city and finding home. Odysseus has reached Ithaca again - and that is good news.”

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