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1Ardashir
I am going to Kiev next month, and tried to find some books set there.
I didn't find a whole lot - in the end I got Death and the Penguin by Andrey Kurkov and The White Guard by Mikhail Bulgakov. The former is set in modern day Kiev, while the latter is set during the Russian Revolution, and both seem to be interesting reads.
Maybe some talented Ukrainian writer should write a big, epic novel about Old Kiev, set during the city's Golden Age in the 11th century...
I didn't find a whole lot - in the end I got Death and the Penguin by Andrey Kurkov and The White Guard by Mikhail Bulgakov. The former is set in modern day Kiev, while the latter is set during the Russian Revolution, and both seem to be interesting reads.
Maybe some talented Ukrainian writer should write a big, epic novel about Old Kiev, set during the city's Golden Age in the 11th century...
2vpfluke
I did a tagmash on Kiev, fiction and some of the books which came up weren't all that promising:
Top books (9 books)
* The Vampire Armand by Anne Rice
* Death and the Penguin by Andrey Kurkov
* The white guard by Mikhail Bulgakov
* Penguin lost by Andrey Kurkov
* The White Hotel by D. M. Thomas
* Byzantium Endures by Michael Moorcock
* A Matter of Death and Life by Andrey Kurkov
* Enchantment by Orson Scott Card
* Nowhere man : the Pronek fantasies by Aleksandar Hemo
Top books (9 books)
* The Vampire Armand by Anne Rice
* Death and the Penguin by Andrey Kurkov
* The white guard by Mikhail Bulgakov
* Penguin lost by Andrey Kurkov
* The White Hotel by D. M. Thomas
* Byzantium Endures by Michael Moorcock
* A Matter of Death and Life by Andrey Kurkov
* Enchantment by Orson Scott Card
* Nowhere man : the Pronek fantasies by Aleksandar Hemo
3Ardashir
As it turns out, the story of Death and the Penguin was not very dependent on the city of Kiev. The setting was important, but mainly the backdrop of a corrupt, former communist nation, where nothing seems to work. That can no longer be said of Kiev.
The only prominent place that was visited in the book was Hydropark, an amusement area on an island in the Dniepr river, where I did not have time to go during this visit...
The White Guard, on the other hand, was full of geographical detail, and there are more than one passage where you follow the characters as they move from street to street whilst trying to hide from enemy soldiers. The two cathedrals on top of the main hill are visited, as well as the statue of St. Vladimir, and of course Kreschatik street. Bulgakov was about the same age as Alexei Turbin, one of the main characters, and was a native of Kiev, so it is safe to assume he knew what he was writing about...
I also have Michael Moorcock's quadrilogy starting with Byzantium Endures on my shelf, and the first book at least is set partly in Kiev.
The only prominent place that was visited in the book was Hydropark, an amusement area on an island in the Dniepr river, where I did not have time to go during this visit...
The White Guard, on the other hand, was full of geographical detail, and there are more than one passage where you follow the characters as they move from street to street whilst trying to hide from enemy soldiers. The two cathedrals on top of the main hill are visited, as well as the statue of St. Vladimir, and of course Kreschatik street. Bulgakov was about the same age as Alexei Turbin, one of the main characters, and was a native of Kiev, so it is safe to assume he knew what he was writing about...
I also have Michael Moorcock's quadrilogy starting with Byzantium Endures on my shelf, and the first book at least is set partly in Kiev.
