Bat-Ami by Oleksiy Nikitin
by Oleksii Nikitin
Description
Ilya Goldinov, Ukrainian Jew boxing champion, had won the second place in the Soviet All-Union championship when World War II started. After Germany invaded Ukraine, he joins the guerrillas in the forests behind the front line. Only by a lucky coincidence does he survive and he joins the regular army as a soldier before being sent by the secret service on a life-threatening mission to occupied Kyiv. This family saga, full of inconceivable twists and turns, is told in such a thrilling, detailed and touching way that it captivates its readers after only a few pages. Bat-Ami is not a documentary novel, but its story is inspired in part by the author‘s family recollections and is based on the documentary files relating to 1941-42 secret service operations from the archives of the Ukrainian Secret Service released only in 2011, as well as from other Ukrainian archives, in particular the Museum of the Dynamo Kyiv Sports Club and Yad Vashem organisation. The fight of Ukrainian patriots for independence of Ukraine from Russia, the USSR, and liberation from German occupiers captures your attention and can become the vital lesson for present-day Ukraine.
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Foreign rights sold: Italian, English(USA).
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Author Biography
Oleksii Nikitin (b. in 1967, Kyiv) is the author of several novels, a number of short prose pieces, and numerous short stories. His first publications in Kiev’s periodicals began appearing in the early 90’s. In 2000, his first collection of short stories was awarded the Korolenko prize of the National writers union of Ukraine, for the best Ukrainian prose written in Russian. His novel “Istemi” was translated into English and Italian in 2013 and was published by Peter Owen Publishing (London, United Kingdom) and Voland (Rome, Italy), respectively. In 2016, the novel was published in the United States under the title “Y.T”. In 2014 Nikitin published a novel “Victory Park”. It was translated into French in 2017 and published in Switzerland by the Noir Sur Blanc publishing house of Lausanne, Switzerland. It was translated and published in Italy by Voland Publishing House in 2019.
Bibliographic Information
- Publisher The Phoenix Publishing House Private Enterprise
- Publication Date 2021
- Orginal LanguageUkrainian
- ISBN/Identifier 9789661368162
- Publication Country or regionUkraine
- Pages832
- ReadershipGeneral
- Publish StatusPublished
- Original Language TitleБат-Амі
- Original Language AuthorsНікітін Олексій
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