Malva Landa

Yuriy Vynnychuk's novel has already been evaluated by critics as a significant event in Ukrainian literature. Written in a postmodern style while preserving all the characteristic features of this direction, it captivates with a heart-breaking plot, flavored with eroticism, black humor, an unstoppable flow of fantasy, and, of course, luxurious language. But at the same time, this peculiar novel labyrinth contains a deep subtext in the form of countless literary allusions and hints, a game with the reader, both plot-wise and linguistically.

"The novel "Malva Landa" - according to Andrii Bondar - is a very unexpected breakthrough of Ukrainian prose into the realm of new fantasy, which we did not have. Vynnychuk so skillfully and so deliciously and juicily offers us some absolutely alternative world, the world of Ukraine's scavenger, that, I think, this novel is the greatest achievement of Ukrainian prose of recent decades."