What is the book about? Mining village. Three generations of one family. People trying to live in the gaps between wars.
"Grandmother Did Not Like to Die" is an autobiographical book, because the author wrote about his family. And at the same time, it is universal, because it describes events, phenomena, characters, and destinies that allow us to understand Donbas and the people who live there. In recent years, this region seemed to be a chapter from our past — but now it is becoming a chapter of our future.
It will be easier for us to understand it if we look into it.
About the author:
For some, the name of Pavel Belianskyi became known through his blog, for others after watching the film "I Work in the Cemetery", based on his semi-autobiographical novel and based on his own script. However, this sharp caustic author's style is already beginning to be recognized more and more often. The writer has a colorful biography: he was born in the Luhansk region, graduated from the Dnipropetrovsk Chemical and Technological Institute, and during his life managed to work as a security guard, porter, freight forwarder, journalist, advertiser... and opened his own tombstone manufacturing company.
Published in independent publishing houses, wrote more than 100 short stories and several novels. Now he is fighting in the ranks of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
Why should you read it?
• Unusual voices in modern Ukrainian literature are highly valued. That is why Belyansky has the fame of the author "from the people". The story of his own life and the lack of writing training makes his text bold and free, eliminates unnecessary ingenuity, and clichéd plot moves, and imbues it with the "truth of life."
• The book has a rebellious vibe, it concentrates the worldview of the people of Donbas. whether they are a motley breed of lumpen, or hostages of circumstances and a difficult life - you can form your own opinion thanks to this "uncomfortable" novel.
