Michael (Mykhaylo Myshkalo). Storozhi trotuaru. (Guardians of the Pavement)

"Guardians of the Pavement" is the first in the Ukrainian literature direct voice of the "lost generation" of the edge of the 1980's-1990's. The generation of "guest workers" that floated away around the world in search of the promised land. The generation of "the Lviv that has never existed" – of the factories and dormitories, theaters and museums, train stations and kneipes that have disappeared. The generation that got lost at the civilization turn, and whose experience, often tragic, still awaits for its chroniclers. Myhaylo Myshkalo, remembered by the audience of the legendary Lviv newspaper "Postup" in the late 1990's as the columnist "Michael", undertakes the debut in the genre of that very "witness chronicle". An engineer by education, he traded in open markets of Lviv, Warsaw, Belgrade, Budapest, Olsztyn, he worked as a laborer and nanny in the UK. He has gone along the path that thousands of Ukrainians have passed and was able to describe it. That is why everything is alive and real here – starting from the language and realities of the time to the feelings, among which the leading and overarching one being – love."

In Ukrainian.
Type of the edition: hard cover
Format: 128x200 mm
Number of pages: 148