"The most space in the heart of young beauty Kornelia is occupied by famous Moloda Muza poet Petro Karmansky... This is a work of the writer's deep penetration into the everyday life of Galicians in the 1930's-1950's. Among the participants of the novel's events, there are actual and fictional people who, while developing their biographies and credible stories, turned into the epoch's victims and heroes. The essay novel is a sort of a prophecy, a warning about the tragic realities of our time. Authentic elements from the monument of Kornelia – the student of Drohobych Ukrainian College "Ridna Shkola" named after Ivan Franko – are used in the design of the cover and flyleaves." In Ukrainian. Edition type: hard cover
Format: 128x200 mm Number of pages: 208 Publisher: Vydavnytstvo Staroho Leva, Lviv Contents:
In her new long story, Halyna Pahutyak tries to show that in the town of Sokoliv that disappeared other nations but for Ukrainians lived, and their cultures influenced each other, and that the modern view of inter-ethnic relations should be balanced. The quest for the disappeared Sokoliv smoothly transforms into a quest for the Kenigsberg that disappeared..
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"There are very few things in the world that cannot be avoided. For example, death or defenselessness. Death can be relieved with the hope for another life, defenselessness – with the hope for protection. But in eternity we are defenseless and mortal." These words by Halyna Pahutyak could be the leitmotif of the entire book..
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The core of the novel is the individual story of one of the most extravagant members of the Imperial Habsburg family, Wilhelm, better known in Ukraine by his battle pseudonym Vasyl Vyshyvany. In the novel, he does not die in the walls of Lukyanivska prison, as it actually happened, but finds himself in the soviet Lviv, gets married...
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..To earn for a piece of bread for her children, she eventually finds herself in an underground brothel. Her inclination to American black soldiers, among whom she discovers sincere friends, friendship with a gypsy family that miraculously survived death camps, and then assisting her fellow prostitutes and other disadvantaged people – this is what helps to survive..
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"Girl with a Pearl Earring", a brilliant piece by Dutch painter of genius in the 17th century, Jan Vermeer. This picture has something magnetic in it, it has been living its separate life for almost four centuries. Tracy Chevalier, modern US-British writer, picked up the girl from the famous portrait as the protagonist of her novel..
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What is time if not a whale that swallows everything. How many lives of outstanding Ukrainian turned into that swallowed plankton. It is impossible to snatch them from the oblivion, unless someone living feels the urgent need to remember. In this novel, the renowned forgotten one is Vyacheslav Lypynsky, Ukrainian historian of Polish origin, philosopher and unlucky politician..
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This ironic and tender, intelligent and romantic, almost nonfictional and absolutely fantastic story with the tint of soft humor and merciless sarcasm will definitely give you joy, pleasure of reading, and even a bit of catharsis.
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They have in their hands the most powerful corporations that the fate of the country depends on. They are modern Atlases. Their religion is economics, their responsibility – the burden of the entire world. Once they dreamt of changing the life of the society, but now they have to hear that all their work only multiplies injustice..
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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..
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An ordinary spot on the border of the "happy Austria", where they live, suffer... And against the backdrop of the era that for next generations will increasingly get wrapped in myths of an idyllic life – the lives of two women that got so closely intertwined, as if trunks of trees – in an inseparable grasp that does not make it possible to live, or breathe, stay or leave.
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"Echoe..." is a strange and fascinating story of a young German woman Martha who believed that her grandfather had died a heroic death back during the Second World War – and had been buried somewhere near Zhytomyr. While it turns out that the old man actually lived out his age in a German asylum – and he turned her life upside down...
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In Pagford, a local council member Barry Fairbrother aged forty-five dies suddenly. This event shocked local residents. It seemed that life was idyllic in the provincial English cozy town with a cobbled square and an ancient monastery, but in the heart of the town, behind this attractive facade, a real war was waged...
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"Urizh and Its Spirits" is a unique book in the Ukrainian literary discourse. It is a spiritual history in the mythological time of the actual village Urizh, where the original writer Halyna Pahutyak was born (a Shevchenko Prize winner), and she has portrayed it in her writing as a boundless universe...
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This is the first new book by Lina Kostenko during the recent 20 years of silence and her first prose novel. The novel is written in the person of a 35-year old computer programmer, who against the background of his personal drama captiously, deeply and painfully scans all dislocations of our globalized time.
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