Lucky Breaks (Ukraine book)

Lucky Breaks (Щасливі падіння) is a short story collection by Ukrainian writer and photographer Yevgenia Belorusets. The book combines text and photography to depict the lives of women whose everyday routines are disrupted by the war in eastern Ukraine.

Awards

Reception

  • The book received widespread critical attention in the English-speaking press. In the United Kingdom, it was reviewed as a The Guardian book of the day, with critic Marcel Theroux highlighting the collection's use of fable-like structures and black humour to capture the experience of women caught up in Russian aggression against Ukraine.[3]
  • The Straits Times in Singapore called the book a haunting, evocative collection and awarded the Pushkin Press edition four stars.[4]
  • The book has also been discussed in critical essays on war literature and gender-based violence.[5] The book has appeared on recommended reading lists of contemporary Ukrainian writing in translation.[6][7]

References

  1. ^ "International Literature Award 2020 by HKW goes to German translation of "Lucky Breaks" - Yevgenia Belorusets — Website". belorusets.com. Retrieved 2025-11-29.
  2. ^ "The Oxford–Weidenfeld Translation Prize – 2023 shortlist". St Anne's College, University of Oxford. University of Oxford. Retrieved 29 November 2025.
  3. ^ Theroux, Marcel (2022-06-03). "Lucky Breaks by Yevgenia Belorusets review – war stories from Ukraine". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2025-11-29.
  4. ^ Toh, Wen Li (28 May 2022). "Book review: Lucky Breaks tells the stories of ordinary women in Ukraine". The Straits Times. Retrieved 29 November 2025.
  5. ^ McEachern, Sarah (11 July 2022). "The Banality of Gender-Based Violence: On Nataliya Meshchaninova's "Stories of a Life" and Yevgenia Belorusets's "Lucky Breaks"". Los Angeles Review of Books. Retrieved 29 November 2025.
  6. ^ "What to Read and See about Ukraine and Ukrainians in 2024". Razom for Ukraine. 18 January 2024. Retrieved 29 November 2025.
  7. ^ "Five of the best recent books from Ukraine". The Guardian. 8 February 2024. Retrieved 29 November 2025.
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