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Ordinary People Don't Carry Machine Guns

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In Ordinary People Don''t Carry Machine Guns, Artem Chapeye reveals his war, intimate and senseless, withholding nothing about his motivations, his nightmares, his new relationship with the world. Here one man, a pacifist turned fighter, a story writer turned soldier considers the reasons for and reactions to war on a very personal level. Chapeye investigates his role in the Ukrainian people''s defense against the Russian army and his responsibilities as a father, a writer, a soldier, and a man of conviction. An avowed pacifist until 2022, Chapeye joined the Ukrainian army in the first days of the invasion. He tries to understand the large-scale decision-making that has a defining impact on both individual citizens and society-at-large: many of his fellow soldiers never considered enlisting before finding themselves at war; others fled the country. He wonders what his young children at home are doing and what they''re feeling. The book has three parts, offering historical analogies and literary references throughout. ''When Darkness Comes'' relates the first days of the full-scale invasion in February 2022 when lives and the peace were shattered. ''It''s Necessary to Cultivate Your Garden'' details the experience of the everyday people of Ukraine, workers and peasants, who look forward to returning to simpler lives. The last section, ''People Aren''t Divided into Brands,'' critiques the elitism of those who consider themselves above those who ''''simply'' fight. Deeply thought-provoking, intelligent, and heartbreaking, this is an essential book for anyone who wants to understand the ways that war can change everything.

In Ordinary People Don''t Carry Machine Guns, Artem Chapeye reveals his war, intimate and senseless, withholding nothing about his motivations, his nightmares, his new relationship with the world. Here one man, a pacifist turned fighter, a story writer turned soldier considers the reasons for and reactions to war on a very personal level. Chapeye investigates his role in the Ukrainian people''s defense against the Russian army and his responsibilities as a father, a writer, a soldier, and a man of conviction. An avowed pacifist until 2022, Chapeye joined the Ukrainian army in the first days of the invasion. He tries to understand the large-scale decision-making that has a defining impact on both individual citizens and society-at-large: many of his fellow soldiers never considered enlisting before finding themselves at war; others fled the country. He wonders what his young children at home are doing and what they''re feeling. The book has three parts, offering historical analogies and literary references throughout. ''When Darkness Comes'' relates the first days of the full-scale invasion in February 2022 when lives and the peace were shattered. ''It''s Necessary to Cultivate Your Garden'' details the experience of the everyday people of Ukraine, workers and peasants, who look forward to returning to simpler lives. The last section, ''People Aren''t Divided into Brands,'' critiques the elitism of those who consider themselves above those who ''''simply'' fight. Deeply thought-provoking, intelligent, and heartbreaking, this is an essential book for anyone who wants to understand the ways that war can change everything.

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VerlagTurnaround
EinbandKartonierter Einband (Kt)
Erscheinungsjahr2025
AusgabekennzeichenEnglisch
MasseH21.0 cm x B14.0 cm x D1.0 cm 168 g
CoverlagSeven Stories Press UK (Imprint/Brand)
AutorChapeye, Artem / Tompkins, Zenia (Übers.)

Über den Autor Artem Chapeye

An author of both creative nonfiction and popular fiction, ARTEM CHAPEYE was born and raised in the small Western Ukrainian city of Kolomyia and has spent much of the last twenty years living in Kyiv. He is the author of two novels and four books of creative nonfiction in Ukrainian, is a co-author of a book of war reportage, and has four-times been a finalist of the BBC Book of the Year Award. The title story of his recent collection The Ukraine (Seven Stories Press; January 2024) was excerpted in The New Yorker and received high praise. Artem is an avid traveler who spent close to two years living, working, and traveling in the U.S. and Central America-an experience that has greatly informed his writing. His work has been translated into seven languages and has appeared in English in the Best European Fiction anthology and in publications such as Refugees Worldwide, translated by Marian Schwartz. Artem is a past recipient of the Central European Initiative Fellowship for Writers in Residence (Slovenia) and the Paul Celan Fellowship for Translators (Austria), as well as a finalist of the Kurt Schork Award in International Journalism. He serves on the board of PEN Ukraine. He has been a soldier in the Ukrainian army since the early days of the full-scale Russian invasion.DAISY GIBBONS is a literary translator from Ukrainian into English. A graduate of Cambridge University's Slavonic Department, she took up translation and interpreting while living in Kyiv. She translates contemporary and classic Ukrainian literature and drama, and has been awarded prizes from the Ukrainian Institute in London for her work. She has translated works by Lesia Ukrainka, Sofia Andrukhovych, Victoria Amelina, Artem Chapeye, Artem Chekh, Tamara Duda, Oleg Sentsov, Olena Stiazhkina, Oksana Lutsyshyna, Irena Karpa, among others. Extracts of her work and short pieces have been published by The Guardian, Harper's magazine, Vanity Fair, and The New York Times. She now spends her time between Oxford and Ukraine.

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