Tango of Death is a Ukrainian historical novel by Yuriy Vynnychuk. It was first published in 2012 by Folio and received the BBC Ukrainian Book of the Year award for 2012.
Announcing the BBC Ukrainian Book of the Year award, juror Vira Ageyeva highlighted the novelâÂÂs combination of a dramatic storyline with historical detail and its movement between comic and tragic tones. In a 2019 Angelus report, juror Piotr à Âliwià Âski described the Polish edition as unexpectedly engrossing and as presenting a perspective on Lviv different from familiar nostalgic treatments of the city. In an interview with Der Standard, Vynnychuk discussed the novelâÂÂs Lviv setting in relation to the wartime destruction of the cityâÂÂs prewar multicultural life and the Holocaust in the region.
The English translation has also been examined in translation-studies scholarship: a 2021 peer-reviewed case study in SHS Web of Conferences analyzed studentsâ responses to the novel in Ukrainian and in its English translation.