Absolute Zero
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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.
Translated from the Ukrainian by Olena Jennings and Oksana Lutsyshyna.
Olena Jennings
Translated by
Olena Jennings is the author of the poetry collection The Age of
Secrets (Lost Horse Press) and the chapbook Memory Project. She is the translator or co-translator of
collections by Ukrainian poets Iryna Shuvalova, Kateryna Kalytko, Vasyl Makhno,
Yuliya Musakovska, and Anna Malihon. She lives in Queens, New York where she
founded and co-curates the Poets of Queens reading series and press.
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