Mondegreen: Songs about Death and Love by Volodymyr Rafeyenko Galeotti searching for refrains in the

searching for refrains in the surroundings

survivors from the massacre in Osh in 2010

The poem was recently voted the 28th most popular poem of all time in Russia

she visits the huge and desolate Polygon in Kazakhstan where the Soviet Union tested explosions of nuclear bombs

The Bolshevik Revolution in 1917 seriously compromised the Allied war effort

Mondegreen: Songs about Death and Love by Volodymyr Rafeyenko Galeotti searching for refrains in theTranslated and introduced by Mark Andryczyk A mondegreen is something that is heard improperly by someone who then clings to that misinterpretation as fact. Fittingly, Volodymyr Rafeyenkos novel Mondegreen: Songs about Death and Love explores the ways that memory and language construct our identity, and how we hold on to it no matter what. The novel tells the story of Haba Habinsky, a refugee from Ukraines Donbas region, who has escaped to the capital