Books like Grey Bees
Sergey Sergeyich, a beekeeper, is one of only two people left in a village in the grey zone between the Ukrainian army and the separatists in Donbas, and in spring he sets off with his hives to find somewhere quiet.
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Death and the Penguin
Viktor, a struggling writer in post-Soviet Kyiv who lives with a depressed penguin called Misha, is hired by a newspaper to write obituaries of people who are still alive.
Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead
In a remote Polish village near the Czech border, an eccentric retired engineer who translates Blake and casts horoscopes insists that the local hunters now turning up dead were killed by the animals.
The Orphanage
Pasha, a Ukrainian-language teacher in a town in Donbas, crosses the front line in winter to bring his nephew home from a boarding school in occupied territory.
Breathing Lessons
On a single Saturday, Maggie and Ira Moran drive out of Baltimore to a funeral, and Maggie decides to bring their son back together with his ex-wife.
The Tiger's Wife
Natalia, a young doctor in an unnamed Balkan country after the wars, learns that her grandfather has died far from home, and goes back over the stories he told her of the tiger's wife and the deathless man.
Chronicle in Stone
A boy grows up in Gjirokastër, a city of stone in southern Albania, during the Second World War, as Italians, Greeks and Germans take turns occupying it.
Sarajevo Marlboro
Short stories of life in Sarajevo during the siege of the 1990s, of ordinary people in an extraordinary war.
Iza's Ballad
After her father's death, a well-meaning Budapest doctor brings her widowed mother to live in her modern flat and slowly dissolves the old woman's place in the world.
How the Soldier Repairs the Gramophone
Aleksandar, a boy in Višegrad who loves stories and his grandfather, flees to Germany with his family when the Bosnian war comes, and later goes back to look for a girl he once saved.
The True True Story of Raja the Gullible (and His Mother)
Raja, a philosophy teacher in his sixties, lives in Beirut with his formidable mother, and tells their story through Lebanon's civil war and everything after.
Tevye the Dairyman
Tevye, a poor Jewish dairyman in a village in Ukraine, tells the author how his daughters, one after another, break with tradition.
The Question of Bruno
Stories of Bosnia and exile, among them the novella Blind Jozef Pronek and Dead Souls, about a young Bosnian stranded in Chicago when the war begins.