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Lucky Breaks by Yevgenia Belorusets, Eugene Ostashevsky is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

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Powerful, off-beat stories about women living in the shadow of the now-frozen, now-thawing war in Ukraine Out of the impoverished coal regions of Ukraine known as the Donbass, where Russian secret military intervention coexists with banditry and insurgency, the women of Yevgenia Belorusets’s captivating collection of stories emerge from the ruins of a war, still being waged on and off, ever since the 2014 Revolution of Dignity. Through a series of unexpected encounters, we are pulled into the ordinary lives of these anonymous women: a florist, a cosmetologist, card players, readers of horoscopes, the unemployed, and a witch who catches newborns with a mitt. One refugee tries unsuccessfully to leave her broken umbrella behind as if it were a sick relative; a private caregiver in a disputed zone saves her elderly charge from the angel of death; a woman sits down on International Women’s Day and can no longer stand up; a soldier decides to marry war. Belorusets threads these tales of ebullient survival with a mix of humor, verisimilitude, the undramatic, and a profound Gogolian irony. She also weaves in twenty-three photographs that, in lyrical and historical counterpoint, form their

Who reads Lucky Breaks?

Author

Yevgenia Belorusets, Eugene Ostashevsky

Publisher

New Directions Publishing Corporation

Published

2022

Language

EN

ISBN

9780811229852

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Short Stories, History, European History

Rating

3.6 / 5 (52 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14