Absolute Zero
2nd Edition
Published on 7. July 2020
Book
Hardback
208 pages
978-1-912894-68-0 (ISBN)
Description
The book is a first person account of a soldier’s journey, and is based on Artem Chekh’s diary that he wrote while and after his service in the war in Donbas. One of the most important messages the book conveys is that war means pain. Chekh is not showing the reader any heroic combat, focusing instead on the quiet, mundane, and harsh soldier’s life. Chekh masterfully selects the most poignant details of this kind of life.
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Edition
2nd ed.
Language
English
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Dimensions
Height: 209 mm
Width: 132 mm
Thickness: 16 mm
Weight
347 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-912894-68-0 (9781912894680)
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Persons
Artem Chekh (1985) is a contemporary Ukrainian writer, author of more than ten books of fiction and essays. Absolute Zero (2017), an account of Chekh's service in the army in the war in Donbas, is one of his latest books, for which he became a recipient of several prestigious awards in Ukraine, such as the Joseph Conrad Prize (2019), the Gogol Prize (2018), the Voyin Svitla (2018), and the Litaktsent Prize (2017). This is his first book-length translation into English.