My Women

My Women is a powerful and rare novel composed of a series of searing vignettes about women facing the countless brutalities of war.Through spare, poetic prose and haunting repetition, the book gives voice to those who have been silenced: women who have lost loved ones, who have fought and endured, who have survived, and who have broken under the weight of conflict. The unnamed narrators, known simply as “My Women,” tell succinct yet emotionally charged stories that capture daily life during the war in Ukraine with painful clarity and profound humanity.Unflinching and deeply moving, My Women evokes the intensity of war while honoring the resilience and fragility of those caught within it.The novel won the BBC Book of the Year 2024 in Ukraine and was shortlisted for the 2025 EBRD Literature Prize. It has been published in the United States, France, Sweden, Slovakia, Austria, Poland, Greece, Lithuania, and Italy, with further translations forthcoming in Bulgaria, Latvia, Spain, and Finland.