by Lisa Weeda · tapa blanda · ISBN 9789403130811
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«Aleksandra» is the novel by Lisa Weeda, published by De Bezige Bij in paperback (272 pages, in Dutch).
Lisa Weeda travels to Lugansk at her grandmother's request to find Kolja, who disappeared in the Ukrainian conflict. The narrator crosses paths with great-grandfather Nikolaj, who awaits Aleksandra after his deportation to Germany in 1942. Memory and imagination merge to tell the story of a Don Cossack family between East and West.
It is Lisa Weeda's first novel; she is a Dutch-Ukrainian writer. The original edition was published on 4 November 2021 with the subtitle 'roman'.
For readers of contemporary literary fiction interested in family memory, the history of Ukraine and the conflicts of Eastern Europe.
