The signature work

The Steel Barons

Kyiv, 1991. American lawyer Jack Parker arrives to close a deal. He stays—and finds himself among steel mills, political favours and men with guns.

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Selected works

Fiction
Gonta
Gonta is an illustrated narrative based on a true story about two Kiev shipwrights who crossed half the world for a boat they had built and never stopped thinking of as their own.
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Fiction
Maidan Revolution
Maidan Revolution begins months before the protests and follows a bitter, increasingly angry narrator through corruption, police violence, medical failure, prison abuse, political upheaval, and the uneasy consequences of victory.
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Photo-book
Such is Life
Such is Life is a wordless sequence of 113 photographs.
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Series

Two collections

3 volumes

Revolution on the Maidan

Revolution on the Maidan, Volume I
Revolution on the Maidan, Volume II
Revolution on the Maidan, Volume III

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3 volumes

Food in Pictures & Recipes

Basque Food in Pictures
Danny’s World-Famous Recipes
Thai Food in Pictures

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Photography

Documentary and street photography collections.

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Art

Paintings and mixed-media work.

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Lawyer, writer & visual artist

Alex Frishberg was born in Kyiv, left the Soviet Union with his family in 1974, and returned in 1991. His novels, stories, photographs and paintings draw on a life spent looking closely at people—and at the city he came back to.

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