- Published: 22 September 2022
- ISBN: 9781529905212
- Imprint: Transworld Digital
- Format: Audio Download
- RRP: $26.99
I Will Die in a Foreign Land
- Published: 22 September 2022
- ISBN: 9781529905212
- Imprint: Transworld Digital
- Format: Audio Download
- RRP: $26.99
An unforgettable reading experience and a critical lesson in ongoing global history.
Booklist
This bighearted novel generously portrays the unforgettable set of characters through their determination to face oppression. It's a stunner.
Publishers Weekly, Starred review
A debut that is as thoughtful as it is explosive.
BuzzFeed
Rooted in historical events, the novel follows four unforgettable characters finding their way amidst the violence and turmoil, striving to live and not just survive. So gorgeous and oh so very timely.
Literary Hub
A fully immersive experience that's perfect for a winter read.
Cosmopolitan, Best Historical Fiction Novels of the year
Simply breathtaking in its scope. Pickhart's storytelling is flawless with nothing gratuitous or superfluous. She has taken a large, complex subject and rendered it both tragic and tender by reminding the reader that in the end, the individual life touched by conflict is what really matters.
New York Journal of Books
In many ways, the book feels like an ode to the everyman of Ukraine. With a deft hand, it celebrates those who strive to heal when the world around them feels broken, and the bravery required to love against the odds.
BookBrowse
The sort of ambitious debut novel that makes you sit up and take notice... announces an exciting new voice in fiction.
The Chicago Review of Books
Pickhart's characters are rich and real, flawed and scared, brave and noble. They betray and they are betrayed, sexually and politically and in every other way... By telling stories of those who live in history but refuse to fully succumb to it, Pickhart recuperates the humanity of the people of Ukraine and celebrates their lives as human beings, not as footnotes to someone else's history.
Necessary Fiction
Since 1991, Ukraine has experienced three revolutions, and Pickhart elegantly captures how these events build up inside a person, giving many Ukrainians an acute awareness of the self as both agent and consequence of history.
Sonya Bilocerkowycz, author of On Our Way Home from the Revolution
Innovative, emotionally resonant, and deeply affecting, this is a more-than-promising debut from a very talented writer.
Kirkus, Starred review
Powerful debut ... an impressive feat of empathy ... a rich, multilayered story [that] will resonate with a wide range of readers, and provide illuminating insight for those hoping to learn more about the current conflict.
Guardian
Pickhart's story is powerful, boldly imaginative, rich in history and feeling, charged with events that have occurred since it was written - and which summon up the same force of the history that compelled an American author to write about this "foreign land".
The Times
An innovative and compelling debut... I Will Die in a Foreign Land is an illuminating and worthwhile read.
The Irish Times