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It’s informed by Galina’s and her parents’ lessons on the value of art and culture and enriched by Alëna’s beautifully constructed images and Galina’s poetry" – Herb Randall

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an epic array of short fictional tales reflecting the fifteen years that Varlam Shalamov spent in the Soviet Gulag

The Length of Days: An Urban Ballad by Volodymyr Rafeyenko geography It’s informed by Galina’s andThe Length of Days: An Urban Ballad is set mostly in the composite Donbas city of Zan uncanny foretelling of what this letter has come to symbolize since February 24, 2022, when Russia launched a full scale invasion of Ukraine. Several embedded narratives attributed to an alcoholic chemist turned massage therapist give insight into the funny, ironic, or tragic lives of people who remained in the occupied Donbas after Russias initial aggression in