I Will Die in a Foreign Land
Kalani PickhartAn ABA "Indie Next List" pick for November 2021.
"A debut that is as thoughtful as it is explosive." —BuzzFeed
"Innovative, emotionally resonant, and deeply affecting." —Kirkus, Starred
"It's a stunner." —Publishers Weekly, Starred
In 1913, a Russian ballet incited a riot in Paris at the new Théâtre de Champs-Elysées. "Only a Russian could do that," says Aleksandr Ivanovich. "Only a Russian could make the whole world go mad."
A century later, in November 2013, thousands of Ukrainian citizens gathered at Independence Square in Kyiv to protest then-President Yanukovych's failure to sign a referendum with the European Union, opting instead to forge a closer alliance with President Vladimir Putin and Russia. The peaceful protests turned violent when military police shot live ammunition into the crowd, killing over a hundred civilians.
I Will Die in a Foreign Land follows four individuals over the course of a...