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Kyiv in the 1970s… Stalin is already gone, but the Ukrainian nation is once again on the brink of its existence. First of all, linguistic, and “language is the home of being.” We are confronted with the fates of people “poisoned” by the Soviet regime: those who adapt, write odes to the leaders, collaborate with the KGB and do not want to “sacrifice a grain of their peace and a bucket of Olivier.”
Through the eyes of very different heroes of the novel, we see Ukraine, in which one cannot be Ukrainian: either collaboration, or a diagnosis and a mental hospital. The methods and practices that the Soviet regime resorted to, destroying the human personality, are surprisingly diverse. But even against the background of all this, the sprout of love sprouts. Because “grass must sprout even through the asphalt.”
For a wide range of readers, all connoisseurs of domestic fiction, in particular the genres of historical and socio-psychological novels.