Tue Oct 27 · 5pm
The Face of Fire — Book Launch
The Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute launches The Face of Fire, Oleksii Nikitin’s novel of Kyiv in 1941, translated by Catherine O’Neil and Dominique Hoffman for the Harvard Library of Ukrainian Literature. After the Holodomor and Stalin’s purges, the Jewish boxer Ilya Goldinov and his wife Feliksa, a track star, look to a brighter future until the Nazi invasion. It draws on declassified NKVD files and the author’s family archive.