Mondegreen: Songs about Death and Love by Volodymyr Rafeyenko Galeotti Former British Ambassador to the

Former British Ambassador to the Soviet Union and author of the definitive account of the Soviet invasion and occupation of Afghanistan

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

But this was not a straightforward repudiation or a painless process

As richly dramatic as the great Russian novels of the 19th and 20th centuries

turns out to be the boldest and most resourceful of the rank-and file soldiers

Mondegreen: Songs about Death and Love by Volodymyr Rafeyenko Galeotti Former British Ambassador to 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