Black Earth

A Journey Through Ukraine

Jens Muhling (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

228 Seiten

2019
The Armchair Traveller at the BookHaus (Verlag)
978-1-909961-60-9 (ISBN)

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Will someone pay for the spilled blood? No. Nobody.' Mikhail Bulgakov wrote these words in Kiev during the turmoil of the Russian Civil War. Since then Ukrainian borders have shifted constantly and its people have suffered numerous military foreign interventions that have left them with nothing. As a state, Ukraine exists only since 1991 and what it was before is controversial among its people as well as its European neighbours. Writing in a simple and vivid way, Jens Muhling narrates his encounters with nationalists and old Communists, Crimean Tatars and Cossacks, smugglers, archaeologists and soldiers, all of whose views could hardly be more different. Black Earth connects all these stories to convey an unconventional and unfiltered view of Ukraine - a country at the crossroads of Europe and Asia and the centre of countless conflicts of opinion.

Jens Muhling, born in 1976, was the editor of a German newspaper in Moscow for two years, and has been working for the Berlin newspaper, Der Tagesspiegel, since 2005. His features and essays on Eastern Europe have won him several awards.

Preface xi

1. A Finger on a Map 1

Przemysl-Medyka

2. The Ant Trail 11

Medyka-Shehyni

3. The Love Story of Inge and Bohdan 21

Munich, 1959

4. The Love Story of SC-108 and SD-214 33

Lviv

5. In the Middle of Whatever 55

Dilove-Rakhiv

6. Dr. Stumpp Celebrates a Sad Christmas 77

Berdychiv, 1941

7. Scrape Your Strings Darker 91

Chernivtsi

8. The Miracle of Kalynivka 105

Vinnytsia-Kalynivka

9. At Rabbi Nachman's Grave 121

Uman

10. Philip and the Thief 149

Kiev

11. A German Village 191

Odessa-Dobroolexandrivka

12. Revenge of the Scythians 211

Simferopol-Sevastopol-Bakhchisaray

13. A Handful of Acorns 241

Kherson-Zaporizhia

14. The Love Story of

Kovyl and Tipchak 249

Donetsk-Novoazovsk

15. Friendship of Peoples Street 283

Milove

Acknowledgements 293

Erscheinungsdatum	24.10.2018
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Themenwelt	Reisen ► Reiseberichte
ISBN-10	1-909961-60-4 / 1909961604
ISBN-13	978-1-909961-60-9 / 9781909961609
Zustand	Neuware