Bøker av Askold Melnyczuk

Why is everyone angry with Jonathan? Suspended from school a week before Memorial Day, the savvy and cyber-sexed fifteen-year old is charged by his poet-father to write a history of literature in the age of Twitter. Jonathan absconds to Manhattan to care for his high-living godfather, who recently had a s

The mother of a childhood friend summons Nick Blud back to his old Ukranian-American New Jersey neighborhood, where something unspeakable has just happened, in this harrowing tale about friendship and love, America, and the immigrant's dream.

In a spirited narrative that travels from old Ukraine to New Jersey, Melnyczuk follows his character through the betrayals of World War II and the promises of marriage. His novel is a reminder that history is not something that happens only to others. 202 pp.