Marci Shore's Top Book Recommendations
Want to know what books Marci Shore recommends on their reading list? We've researched interviews, social media posts, podcasts, and articles to build a comprehensive list of Marci Shore's favorite book recommendations of all time.
This captivating book is Serhiy Zhadan’s ode to Kharkiv, the traditionally Russian-speaking city in Eastern Ukraine where he makes his home. A leader among Ukrainian post‑independence authors, Zhadan employs both prose and poetry to address the disillusionment, complications, and complexities that have marked Ukrainian life in the decades following the Soviet Union’s collapse. His novel provides an extraordinary... more
Recommended by Marci Shore, and 1 others. Marci ShoreHe’s a brilliant writer, a poet, novelist, and the lead singer of the ska band Sobaky v Kosmosi (Dogs in Outer Space.) He is the bard of eastern Ukraine. (Source)
"The House with the Stained-Glass Window is remarkable, a gripping, Lvivian evocation of a city and a family across a long and painful century, at once personal and political, a novel of life and survival across the ages" PHILIPPE SANDS, author of East West Street
In 1989, Marianna, the beautiful star soprano at the Lviv opera, is shot dead in the street as she leads the Ukrainian citizens in their protest against Soviet power. Only eleven years old at the time, her daughter tells the story of their family before and after that critical moment -...
moreRecommended by Marci Shore, and 1 others. Marci ShoreIt’s about four generations of women who share an apartment in a house in Lviv with a stained-glass window. (Source)
Polish journalist Pawel Pieniazek was among the first journalists to enter the war-torn region of eastern Ukraine and Greetings from Novorossiya is his vivid firsthand account of the conflict. He was the first reporter to reach the scene when Russian troops in Ukraine accidentally shot down a civilian airliner, killing all 298 people aboard. Unlike Western journalists, his fluency in both Ukrainian and Russian granted him access and the ability to move among all sides in the conflict. With powerful color photos, telling interviews from... more
Recommended by Marci Shore, and 1 others. Marci ShorePaweł Pieniążek is a very young Polish journalist. He was beaten by Ukrainian president Viktor Yanukovych’s riot police in the early days of the Maidan, in December 2014. (Source)
Recommended by Marci Shore, and 1 others. Marci ShoreThis unfinished novel by the Soviet Jewish writer pulls us into the Stalinist Terror. (Source)
Recommended by Marci Shore, and 1 others. Marci ShoreIn this study spanning the century from 1829 to 1929, Glaser leads us into encounters among the most variegated characters. (Source)
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