"Czechoslovakia, a provincial town, the 1970's. The age of the so-called "normalization", as the contemporary communist regime officially referred to the Soviet occupation of 1968-89. The narrator – eight-year old Helenka, a lonely child with developed imagination – is learning to survive in the cruel and brutal world around her without losing herself. Her mother and stepfather are theatre actors, her Jewish grandmother died in World War II, and her father emigrated to the United States. Attacks on "elements hostile to socialism" start in the country, and Helenka's mother becomes one of their victims, ideological control and corruption penetrate into school and family, poison relationships, and maim people's lives. The world of Helenka's child interests is closely intertwined with these tragic realities of the adult life, which the girl naively interprets in her own way, so her story sometimes makes one laugh to tears, and sometimes it touches to tears."
Translated from Czech by Iryna Zabiyaka In Ukrainian. Type of the edition: hard cover Format: 132x200 mm Number of pages: 136 Publisher: KOMORA, Kyiv Contents:
- Irena Douskova. Peredmova do ukrajins‘koho vydannja
1. Jak Olinka bula mertvoju
2. Jak Pepichek buv u pekli
3. Jak knjaz‘ Przhemysl z Husakom buly u Chaslavi v tualeti
4. Jak mene malo ne zzherly vovky
5. Jak ja dyvylasja na zhnyloho horobtsja
6. Jak zljakalysja slony
7. Jak ja roztoptala murakh
8. Jak my vyryly partyzana
9. Jak u nas na obid buly tel‘bukhy
10. Jak pochalasja tsja zmova
11. Jak ja znayshla sobi druziv
12. Jak Berenchychova vystrybnula z vikna
13. Jak mene zradyla Kachenka
14. Jak mene ne vzjaly do fil‘mu i shcho stalosja z ravlykamy
15. Jak mene zzherly vovky
16. Jak u mene ne bulo apendytsytu
17. Jak pani N‘juyorkova zvykhnula sobi ruku
18. Jak Bozhenku Veverkovu z’jily nimkeni
19. Jak u nas na skhodakh bula krov
20. Jak use dobre zakinchylosja
- Iryna Zabijaka. Pisljaslovo vid perekladacha
Publisher: KOMORA Catalogue number: ISBN 9789669740359 Year: 2015
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