The House in Baiting Hollow: Short Stories
Nov 2026 · Harvard Library of Ukrainian Literature Book 10 · Harvard University Press - T
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In this luminous and quietly unsettling collection of short stories, Vasyl Makhno moves across continents, generations, and inner lives to explore what it means to belong—and what it costs to remember.
Set between the multiethnic neighborhoods of New York City and the equally layered landscapes of Makhno’s native Halychyna region of Ukraine, these stories uncover unexpected echoes between past and present, old worlds and new. Immigrants and exiles, survivors and dreamers, carry anxieties shaped by displacement and histories that refuse to stay buried. A Russian White Guard officer wandering New York, an undocumented immigrant in Brooklyn, a Jewish shopkeeper on the eve of the Nazi and Soviet invasions of 1939, and a village woman trying to save her son from postwar repression all confront loneliness, moral uncertainty, and attempt to preserve their fragile identity in the face of upheaval.
Written with subtle irony, emotional restraint, and deep empathy, The House in Baiting Hollow reveals how memory travels across borders and how the wounds of history persist in everyday life. At once intimate and expansive, this collection is a powerful meditation on migration, loss, and the quiet resilience of human values.
Set between the multiethnic neighborhoods of New York City and the equally layered landscapes of Makhno’s native Halychyna region of Ukraine, these stories uncover unexpected echoes between past and present, old worlds and new. Immigrants and exiles, survivors and dreamers, carry anxieties shaped by displacement and histories that refuse to stay buried. A Russian White Guard officer wandering New York, an undocumented immigrant in Brooklyn, a Jewish shopkeeper on the eve of the Nazi and Soviet invasions of 1939, and a village woman trying to save her son from postwar repression all confront loneliness, moral uncertainty, and attempt to preserve their fragile identity in the face of upheaval.
Written with subtle irony, emotional restraint, and deep empathy, The House in Baiting Hollow reveals how memory travels across borders and how the wounds of history persist in everyday life. At once intimate and expansive, this collection is a powerful meditation on migration, loss, and the quiet resilience of human values.
In this luminous and quietly unsettling collection of short stories, Vasyl Makhno moves across continents, generations, and inner lives to explore what it means to belong—and what it costs to remember.
Set between the multiethnic neighborhoods of New York City and the equally layered landscapes ...
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About the author
Vasyl Makhno is a Ukrainian poet, prose writer, and essayist and the recipient of the Kovaliv Fund Prize, Serbia’s International Povele Morave Prize in Poetry, the BBC Ukraine Book of the Year Award, and the Encounter International Ukrainian-Jewish Literary Prize.
Jaroslaw Anders is a literary critic who frequently contributes to The New York Review of Books, The New Republic, and Los Angeles Times, as well as the translator of works by Zbigniew Herbert, Kazimierz Brandys, and Hanna Krall.
Vasyl Makhno is a Ukrainian poet, prose writer, and essayist and the recipient of the Kovaliv Fund Prize, Serbia’s International Povele Morave Prize in Poetry, the BBC Ukraine Book of the Year Award, and the Encounter International Ukrainian-Jewish Literary Prize.
Jaroslaw Anders is a literary cr...
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