Voroshylovhrad (book)

A young man named Herman, having taken over his missing brother's business, returns to his childhood town. He goes through different situations: walks in the steppes with the smugglers' sectarians, associates with the pastor, hide from the raiders, sleeps in the refugee tent under the EU flag, helps to protect the semi-abandoned airfield from the raider invasion and so on.[3]

Voroshilovgrad is translated into many European languages.[4] With the assistance of the Open Ukraine Foundation, the first translation of the novel into Hungarian by Körner Gabor was published in 2012.[5] In 2013, with the assistance of the foundation, a French translation by Iryna Dmytryshyna also appeared.[6]

In 2012, the novel translated by Yuri Durkota and Sabine Stör was published in German.[7]

In January 2013, the novel was published in Poland by Wydawnictwa Czarne. Translated into Polish by Michał Petryk.[8]

On May 24, 2016 (in hardcover) and April 25, 2016 (in e-book format), the novel was published in the United States by the Dallas publishing house "Deep Vellum Publishing", the book was translated into English by professional translators Riley Costigen-Humes and Isaac Wheeler.[9]

In February 2013, Ukrainian producer Yaroslav Lodygin announced that he and writer Sergei Zhadan had begun preparations for the film's adaptation.[10] In December 2017, it became known that the film will be called "The Wild Fields".[11] The movie premiered in the fall of 2018.[10]