TY  - BOOK
AU  - Chernov,Mstyslav
AU  - Helbing,Felix
AU  - Leonard,Peter
TI  - The Dreamtime: A Novel 
SN  - 9781644699904
PY  - 2022///]
CY  - Boston, MA
PB  - Academic Studies Press
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM / General
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - 20 Days in Mariupol
KW  - Academy Awards
KW  - Best War Military books
KW  - Donbas
KW  - Eastern Europe
KW  - Frontline
KW  - Indigenous Australian concepts
KW  - Kyiv
KW  - Oscars
KW  - Pulitzer Prize
KW  - Putin
KW  - Revolution of Dignity
KW  - Russia
KW  - Siege of Mariupol
KW  - Sundance Film festival
KW  - Sundance’s World Cinema Documentary Competition
KW  - Ukraine
KW  - Ukrainian literature
KW  - alcoholism
KW  - bombing
KW  - cat and mouse game
KW  - conflict
KW  - correspondent
KW  - daughter father family relationships
KW  - documentary
KW  - dreaming world-creation
KW  - fiction
KW  - forensic expert
KW  - international
KW  - intertwining narratives
KW  - invasion
KW  - mental illness
KW  - military doctor
KW  - multiple storylines
KW  - patterns of life
KW  - political and military action thriller
KW  - psychological thriller
KW  - sociopath
KW  - translation
KW  - war
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; First Wall --; Second Wall --; Third Wall; restricted access
N2  - A Kirkus Best Indie Book of the Year & a Library Journal Best World Literature read, from Pulitzer Prize-winning AP Journalist and Director/Producer/Writer of the Academy Award-winning documentary 20 Days in Mariupol“[A] book for our times-vivid enough to grab us and not let go.” - Kirkus Reviews (starred review)"A powerful psychological thriller about borderline situations in life, hopes and dreams. Written against the backdrop of the war, before Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, the story acquires an additional passionate and humanistic significance." - Andrey Kurkov, author of Grey Bees“[T]his timely novel from a Ukrainian author excels at examining the connection between reality and dreams and exploring the effects of war on the human psyche.” - Library JournalThe Dreamtime is a fusion of documentary and military fiction inspired by the author’s experience as an award-winning war correspondent that offers a unique and gritty point of view on the horrors of war through four intertwining narratives. Parallel storylines from a guilt-ridden doctor trying to exorcise his demons by exposing himself to war; a young woman tending to her ailing father as the bombs fall around them in Russian-occupied Slovyansk; a mysterious sociopath playing a cat-and-mouse game; and a forensic expert solving a murder case while trying to save her marriage with a discharged soldier bring a raw intensity and a deeply personal connection to the effects of war. As the threads of their stories unfurl, through harrowing scenes of personal and collective trauma, an enigmatic pattern emerges.Shifting from Ukraine's war-torn Donbas to southern Europe and southeast Asia, The Dreamtime ties together themes of existential conflict, the blurred line between reality and dreams, and how easily the boundary dissolves between waking life and nightmare. Originally published in Kyiv in 2020, The Dreamtime has been well received by critics around the world and praised for its realism in depicting war, for its creative literary depiction of how dreams reflect the psyche, and for its masterly prose
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9781644699904?locatt=mode:legacy
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781644699904
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781644699904/original
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