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Depeche Mode
Depeche Mode | Serhiy Zhadan
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In 1993, tragic turbulence takes over Ukraine in the post-communist spin-off. As if in somnambulism, Soviet war veterans and upstart businessmen listen to an American preacher of whose type there were plenty at the time in the post-Soviet territory. In Kharkiv, the young communist headquarters is now an advertising agency, and a youth radio station brings Western music, with Depeche Mode in the lead, into homes of ordinary people. In the middle of this craze three friends, an anti-Semitic Jew Dogg Pavlov, an unfortunate entrepreneur Vasia the Communist and the narrator Zhadan, nineteen years of age and unemployed, seek to find their old pal Sasha Carburetor to tell him that his step-father shot himself dead. Characters confront elements of their reality, and, tainted with traumatic survival fever, embark on a sad, dramatic and a bit grotesque adventure.
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Yuki_Onna
Depeche Mode | Serhiy Zhadan
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Have been trying to get my hands on this edition of the book for a long time and now, due to recent circumstances, more than ever.

Zhadan is Ukrainian, the book is set in the Ukraine.

And I'd love to read it in loving memory of
Andy Fletcher
of Depeche Mode
who passed away unexpectedly the day before yesterday - May 26.
His death left me devastated - have spent the last few days in a fog.
💖 RIP Andy. 💖

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