"One of the brightest representatives of the new literary generation, Lviv resident Petro Yatsenko creates in his novels (including such as "Softheads' Return", "Bodhi Tree" and "Lviv Saga") the original Lviv text full of extraordinary positive energy. His new work based on documentary materials depicts the central Ukraine – the small village of Shmyrky near Podillya Tovtry. After centuries of life on the soft and fertile black soil, the people start worshipping an unusual faith not characteristic of these lands..."
In Ukrainian. Type of the edition: hard cover Format: 144x212 mm Number of pages: 132 Publisher: Piramida, Lviv Contents:
It is a novel about forced escape and inevitable return, false infatuation and true love, about the daily choices a person makes. Different cities and times are brought together by the mysterious life and destiny of Ukrainian emigrant artist Mark Mazur and his missing collection of paintings..
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A magical story of the amazing link between people and cities. The protagonist flees from the occupied Donetsk taking the last train to Kyiv. As a child, she discovered her wonderful talent of seeing people's stories, and now she hears the language of buildings and knows their names. Day after day, she faces new bizarre challenges..
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Ukrainian scientists have reproduced a Neanderthal man based on DNA. He grows up in a secret institute, and only after coming of age he is introduced to the large world. The Ukrainian Neanderthal man constantly gets involved in strange situations..
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This is a story about the lands and nations between Odessa and Trieste, the boundaries where the Balkans start and end. It is a private diary of travel to popular sights, capitals, but also to provinces and unrecognized republics. Lyubka sometimes speaks about that in a humorous manner, while sometimes he scrutinizes that in a scientific way, crosses borders, and challenges stereotypes..
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..Some of the characters make it almost to the end, where current gets activated in the wire throwing them back to the primitive chaos. However, there are also those who have flashes of revelation, from which a new world emerges. And the reader may stay with the former – or with the latter.
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"This is a psychological thriller with elements of erotica and opera arias, where the actions unfold in Poland, Ukraine, and Romania. A detective story with an impressive finale, the aftertaste of which one wants to stretch for a long time. ...This novel reveals the new author for us – mature, skilled, sophisticated." Svyatoslav Pomerantsev
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"Killer +" is the first and, at the same time, the latest prose book by Andriy Lyubka. It was with these texts that he debuted in the genre of short prose, but specifically for this publication, the author wrote two new short stories.
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Outstanding mystifications are not an invention of the "post-truth era." Matka Makryna Mieczysławska, a holy martyr for the Catholic faith, was begged for favor by dignitaries and aristocrats, she had audiences with the Pope and knew Adam Mickiewicz; Juliusz Slowacki and Stanisław Wyspyński wrote about her...
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..thieves and journalists, Makhno adepts and governors, "Spas" fighters. Legendary poet and dissident Kholodny is presented next to criminal Medved, and mystic Chudin is somehow combined with sex symbol Natalka Shamonina. And the City dominates over all of them. Now Zaporizhya, which Volvach with his "Class" added to the map of the Ukrainian literature.
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Due to this book, one can once again see how closely life and death are intertwined, how strong the mutual influences existing between them are. On the other hand, it is a very realistic story about a family and relationships among its members..
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These short stories are like portraits of those who the author met during his travels in Thailand, Laos, Vietnam, Malaysia, and Singapore. Portraits of people living and true – no decorations, no tricks, or artistic metaphors. Portraits that are simple and spontaneou...
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This is a challenge, a provocation of a book. About shattered stereotypes and stunning revelation. This is a story of a girl from a Ukrainian province who discovered adrenaline, personal freedom, and favorite work on the shooting set with windows shut tight..
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To "lyntom" – to go idle, wander, mop around. So they say in Velyka Kamyanka, where the path of Bohdan Oslavsky started. It took him from Kyiv electric trains through Kuban plains and mountains of the Caucasus, sands of the Kyzylkum and Karakum, bazaars of Samarkand and Bukhara, through the Fergana Valley back to Ukraine.
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An important feature of this work is a combination of the ironic and sexual, beautiful and useful, in fact, it is in this format, perhaps, that this novel fits into the quite long literary tradition, rooted back in the times of the Renaissance prose.
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Bodhi tree is the plant, sitting under which Gautama Buddha achieved enlightenment. Though, in fact, it is a normal tree of the fig family. Hundreds of thousands, millions of such trees grow all over the world, even in the homestead of a lonely 35-year old woman, the character of the novel by Peter Yatsenko "Bodhi Tree"...
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Finally, the novel on the life of the Ukrainian expatriate intellectual in Hungary, filled with actual observations and exciting experiences, is published in Ukraine...
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The author managed to combine in the text a huge number of interesting topics, and this combination is done so skillfully, and the author's characters and the atmosphere of the book appear so "lively", that after the first assumption "even this might happen", the novel is even no longer perceived as fantasy...
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"Guardian..." 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 that got lost at the civilization turn, and whose experience, often tragic, still awaits for its chronicler...
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