Mondegreen: Songs about Death and Love

by Volodymyr Rafeyenko

Book Overview

A mondegreen is something that is heard improperly by someone who then clings to that misinterpretation as fact. Fittingly, Volodymyr Rafeyenko's novel Mondegreen: Songs about Death and Love explores the ways that memory and language construct our identity, and how we hold on to it no matter what. The novel tells the story of Haba Habinsky, a refugee from Ukraine's Donbas region, who has escaped to the capital city of Kyiv at the onset of the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 067427170X
• ISBN13: 9780674271708
• Release Date: April 2022
• Publisher: Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute
• Length: 204 Pages
• Weight: 0.62 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.0" x 7.9"