My Final Territory: Selected Essays

"We should feel grateful to the translators for making Andrukhovych’s incisive essays available, for the first time and in one place, to English-speaking audiences."

Alexander Burak, University of Florida, Slavic Review

"Combining playful memoir writing, history, fiction, and travelogue, My Final Territory gathers Andrukhovych’s best essays from 1996 to 2011, highlighting　his views of Galicia, Lviv, Kyiv, and attitudes toward Poles, Russians, and the Soviet past. Most importantly, Andrukhovych is concerned with questions of identity, their complexity and the whimsical grounds on which they are constructed.

This translation of My Final Territory captures Andrukhovych’s ‘lightness of touch’ admirably. The English-language reader learns much about Ukraine that will be novel, eye-opening, and inspiring. This is the most valuable achievement of the collection. It allows the reader to hear and see from the perspective of an outstanding contemporary Ukrainian writer and intellectual who engages with the opinions about his country held by others."

Myroslav Shkandrij, Department of Slavic Studies, University of Manitoba