From literary star Serhiy Zhadan comes a devastating story of the struggles of civilians caught up in the conflict in eastern Ukraine. When hostile soldiers invade a neighboring city, Pasha, a thirty-five-year-old Ukrainian language teacher, sets out for the orphanage where his nephew Sasha lives, now in occupied territory. Venturing into combat zones, traversing shifting borders, and forging uneasy alliances along the way, Pasha realizes where his true loyalties lie in an increasingly desperate fight to rescue Sasha and bring him home.
Recalling the brutal landscape of The Road and the wartime storytelling of A Farewell to Arms, The Orphanage is a deeply personal account of violence that will be remembered as the definitive novel of the war in Ukraine.
