Book and Ticket! Join us in the shop on April 1st at 6.30pm for our book club where this month we are discussing Carbide by Andriy Lyubka, Translated from the Ukrainian by Reilly Costigan-Humes and Isaac Stackhouse Wheeler.
 
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A drunken teacher dreams up a hairbrained scheme to dig a tunnel from Ukraine to Hungary to force the EU to grant Ukraine admission by smuggling its entire population into a member country. Tys, the would-be 'Moses of Ukraine', recruits a gang of local smugglers, including a latter-day Icarus determined to fly over the border and a femme fatale who traffics human organs.

This timely novel offers a funny, yet tragic take on increasingly urgent topics such as the meaning of borders, nationalism, and European identity.

Andriy Lyubka is the member of Ukrainian PEN and lives in Uzhhorod. Carbide is his first novel, originally published in Ukrainian in 2015.

"...a fast-paced tragicomedy which establishes the young author as Ukraine’s modern-day Voltaire."