Three Tenches for Mary

Each novel by Serhii Osoka is a small big story of a simple person, which, perhaps, no one would have noticed on this earth, if not for the attentive master of words. Because he does not just write but creates a three-dimensional picture of human life with a few strokes: it seems that you can listen and hear how reeds rustle, fish splash in the pond, how apples fall, old doors creak, how human sighs, muffled laughter or sobs mix with the wind. And you can also feel the smells - sometimes thick and dense, to the point of choking, sometimes volatile and transparent, like the scent of a flower.

Somewhere in this 3D format, you can see a person with all his beautiful and ugly features, rough surfaces, and deep depressions of his troubled soul. It seems that the plots of these novels are small or secondary, but that is only the key that opens the portal through which you enter the world of great literature.