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A masterful portrayal of a country between wars and at war as experienced by the idiosyncratic people the narrator encounters in towns and villages and desolate stretches across the land-from wanderers inside the Chernobyl irradiated zone, to townspeople terrorized by marauding bears, from travelers on a train skipping stops where hostilities have broken out, to a young couple looking for an apartment in Kyiv before the arrival of their firstborn. Chapeye adds his contemporary voice to the long Eastern European storytelling tradition that includes Chekhov, Gorky, and Babel-showing us people living amidst the normalization of unending war.