Dom’s Dream Kingdom
Dom’s Dream Kingdom (Дім для Дома)
Author: Victoria Amelina
Translator: Grace Mahoney
Translation: Ukrainian to English
Victoria Amelina’s award-wining novel, Dom’s Dream Kingdom, prods the complexities of Ukraine’s transition to independence after the Soviet collapse. Following members of the Tsilyk family, who settle in Lviv in the 1990s, the novel unearths their multigenerational ties from Baku to Berlin, while considering the forgotten lives that once inhabited the family’s new apartment. The result is an incisive challenge to the barriers facing Ukraine's collective memory. Amelina won the Joseph Conrad Literary Award in 2021 and her book was shortlisted for several awards including the European Union Prize for Literature. The author and war-crimes researcher died tragically at age 37 in July 2023 after a Russian missile struck a popular restaurant in the city of Kramatorsk, killing and wounding over 60 people.