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    • Classic fiction (pre c 1945)
      2020

      Aeneid

      by Ivan Kotlyarevsky

      "Aeneid" is a Ukrainian burlesque-travesty poem written by the writer Ivan Kotlyarevsky, based on the plot of the classic poem of the same name by the Roman poet Virgil. It consists of six parts, in contrast to the twelve parts of Virgil. Written in four-foot iambic. The poem was written during the formation of romanticism and nationalism in Europe, against the background of nostalgia of the Ukrainian elite for the Cossack state, which was liquidated by Russia in 1775-1786. The Aeneid is the first large-scale monument of Ukrainian writing in the spoken Ukrainian language. The poem initiated the formation of modern Ukrainian literature.

    • Relationships
      2020

      Amadoca

      by Sofia Andrukhovych

      Mutilated beyond recognition in the combat in Eastern Ukraine, the protagonist of Amadoca makes it out alive, if only just. It’s too early to celebrate though: his injuries have caused complete amnesia. The man remembers neither his name nor his home town; not a single relative; not a fragment of his old life. At this point a woman finds him. Her love and patience can work miracles, reaching the deepest levels of memory and forgetting, bringing together discrete snippets of the maimed consciousness and weaving them together into the shared history. Amadoca was the largest lake in Europe that lay on the territory that is now Ukraine. First mentioned by Herodotus and faithfully recreated by medieval cartographers down the centuries it suddenly disappeared from accounts. How can large lakes, whole worlds or entire cultures disappears without a trace? And what is left behind in their wake? Are there paralels between Holocaust of East Europe’s Jews and the distruction of Ukrainian artists in Stalin’s Great Terror? Can one person’s forgetting reach several generations below ground? Are the signs and scars of maimed memories what really keeps us together? Can love and patience help to touch the mind of another human being?

    • Short stories
      2021

      Anyone but me

      by Halyna Kruk

      This collection of stories combines tender, intimate, and sometimes frightening experiences. The heroes of the book are the people who live among us, but these pages offer us a chance to read their minds. Here are the quarantine chronicles with the real anxieties and consolations that each of us had to go through. And the feeling of loss, when instead of a person there is only an old photo. The are telephone calls without responce because the subscriber cannot receive your call at the moment. Seductive, emotional, intimate - the stories in "Anyone but me" are about are our deep feelings. And, despite the name, they are about us.

    • Relationships
      2021

      Apricot Bookstore

      by Oresta Osiichuk

      Due to poverty, Maria Farinyak is forced to give her nine-year-old son Mykhailo to the relatives of her late husband: Nuncle Stefan, the owner of a bookstore, and Auntie Kasia, a strict woman who is not happy to have someone else’s child in the house. Thus begins the story of Mis’ko Farinyak, a boy of the early twentieth century, which is strangely intertwined with the story of Mykhailo Farinyak, a man of the early XXI century.

    • Relationships
      2021

      Ask Miechka

      by Eugenia Kuznetsova

      The story of “Ask Miechka” features four generations of women captured during one summer. Two sisters, Mia and Lilia, come to their “shelter”, their grandmother's old house where they have spent their childhood, in an attempt to put on hold their upcoming life-changing decisions: deciding on immigrating or staying, choosing between a reliable man or wild love. Their grandmother, Thea, is nearing the end of her life and her daughter and the sisters’ mother are fearful to take the place of the oldest woman in the family. The old house, overgrown with weeds, shrubs, and sprawling trees, seems to be frozen in time, lost in oblivion. Yet the sisters bring it back to life: new people come, new cats wander in, pumpkins are grown, and the porch is renovated. The house changes, along with the lives of the women who inhabit it as the summer nears its end. In her debut novel, Eugenia Kuznetsova told a deeply intimate story about the relations between sisters, mothers, and daughters. Vivid dialogues, when the most sensitive things remain unspoken, but somehow felt, define the atmosphere of the story, and highlight the unique ties existing between the generations of women in the family.

    • Literature & Literary Studies
      2021

      Bad Roads

      by Nataliia Vorozhbyt

      Nataliia Vorozhbyt became famous when she worked as a screenwriter on the cult TV series To Catch the Kaidash, based on the life of the Ukrainian classic writer Nechuy-Levytsky, and even played a role in it as a supporting actress. Her play Bad Roads was written for the Royal Court Theatre in London; it was also staged by the Kyiv Academic Theatre of Drama and Comedy and later adapted into a hit film. Bad Roads consists of six episodes: they are the stories of ordinary men and women whose fate brought them to Donbas during the Russo-Ukrainian war. Some episodes have even shocked audiences, like the episode where a naked eighth-grade schoolgirl is found in a military dugout. Disputes over Bad Roads are still raging, but they only manage to increase interest in Vorozhbyt’s work.

    • Historical fiction
      2021

      Bat-Ami by Oleksiy Nikitin

      by Oleksii Nikitin

      Ilya Goldinov, Ukrainian Jew boxing champion, had won the second place in the Soviet All-Union championship when World War II started. After Germany invaded Ukraine, he joins the guerrillas in the forests behind the front line. Only by a lucky coincidence does he survive and he joins the regular army as a soldier before being sent by the secret service on a life-threatening mission to occupied Kyiv. This family saga, full of inconceivable twists and turns, is told in such a thrilling, detailed and touching way that it captivates its readers after only a few pages. Bat-Ami is not a documentary novel, but its story is inspired in part by the author‘s family recollections and is based on the documentary files relating to 1941-42 secret service operations from the archives of the Ukrainian Secret Service released only in 2011, as well as from other Ukrainian archives, in particular the Museum of the Dynamo Kyiv Sports Club and Yad Vashem organisation. The fight of Ukrainian patriots for independence of Ukraine from Russia, the USSR, and liberation from German occupiers captures your attention and can become the vital lesson for present-day Ukraine.

    • Fiction
      January 2022

      Black morello

      by Oleh Rybchynsky

      In the novel plotline lies romantic love between the seminarian of the Theological Seminary of the Holy Spirit Joseph Kladochny, the favorite of Metropolitan Andrey Sheptytskyi, and the niece of the rector of the Galushynskyi Theological Seminary, Adele Lishchynska. Despite all difficult trials of fate, they carried their love in their hearts and preserved it unblemished, eternal and majestic. The book successfully survived the first edition.

    • Historical fiction
      2020

      Cain

      by Volodymyr Yeshkilev

      "It is our time that will decide the future of countries and dynasties to come" said the Cardinal Mazarini's spy to the young nobleman named Pavel Moshkovsky, who will later become the ruler of Ukraine under title of Hetman Teteria. And he was right - the middle of the XVII century started a New Age of European history and drew the apocalyptic outlines of the world in the twilight of which we now live. The dark silhouette of the Biblical figure from the Book of Genesis, who was the firstborn child of Adam and Eve and committed a great sin of killing thy own brother overshadows the last four centuries of the world’s history. Volodymyr Eshkilev dives deep into the secrets of the castles and their rulers in his historical novel "Cain", the second of the trilogy "Cursed Hetmans". The reader will recognise the characters from the author’s previous novel called “Union” and will meet many new historical figures who lived and work during the period called “Ruin”. During the “Ruin” the hetmanate of Teteria, one of the most stipulated and disgraced rulers of Ukraine, held power. Eshkilev offers his own unique and unexpected interpretation of this historical figure. The events of the novel take place in beautiful and artistic surroundings and reflect on political, diplomatic, and even occult affairs of the XVII century.

    • Fiction
      October 2015

      Carbide

      by Andrii Liubka

      In the adventure novel "Carbide," events unfold during the hot and troublesome summer of 2015 when a group of enthusiasts decides to build a Fountain of Unity with Europe in the small fictional town called the Bears. Why do they need a fountain, why are they perfect criminals, and how much can you buy a human kidney for in Ukraine - the author writes about all this business with humor and selective pessimism. The book features a plum tincture, fishermen, a cemetary worker, a seductive and lustful woman, several murderers, a corrupt mayor, and a brilliant idea. It also features river Tysa, and some despair.

    • Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
      2018

      Cerebro

      by Andriy Bondar

      Cerebro, a new collection of short prose by Andrii Bodnar, introduces readers to the strange world of small human adventures. Random meetings and everyday situations that can happen to anyone start you thinking, making decisions and acting. It is a peculiarity of these texts that some of them are copied from real life experience, while others, completely fictitious, are macabre and phantasmagorical. The collection is compiled to start with completely realistic texts, but with each subsequent text this realism is extinguishing or gains new features. There are biographical texts, and then the usual reality departs and the reality of parable appears. The book is a path from realism to phantasmagoria and the sphere of magic. Compositionally it is a path from the real to the unreal world, culminating in a parable about what awaits us at the end of life.

    • Fiction
      October 2018

      Chio-Chio-San, Your Gaze

      by Andrii Liubka

      A drunk judge kills a young woman in a car accident and escapes punishment without much effort. But the woman's husband is not one of those who can be bribed to stay silent or intimidated into oblivion. He would rather lose everything but find out the name of the culprit. A psychological thriller about Ukraine before the war, where bribes measured the value of human life, and murderers stood in the front rows at church services. But why is Puccini able to burn the souls of both antagonists with the look of Madame Butterfly? And is the division between good and evil so clear-cut in this novel? The reader will not find the answer to the last question until the end.

    • Fiction
      October 2001

      Cult

      by Lyubko Deresh

      "Cult" is the first novel of the young author, which immediately became a hit among the readership to the extent that in some circles, as if justifying its title, became almost a cult. Youth life, relationships, slang, risky and funny games of teenagers, their attempts to get to "the other side of reality" at any price - this is all Deresh and one of his best books, which became a kind of summary of literary searches of the 90s of the 20th century

    • Historical fiction
      2021

      Discord

      by Ostap Ukrainets

      Spring of the peoples. The Austrian Empire pulsates and erupts in uprisings. Everyone is trying to determine their place in a great empire, which for many is alien. Ignatius Kaminsky spent time in a Viennese prison and returned home to Stanislaw. He has a certain authority among the local revolutionaries who are actively involved in the debate between Poles and Ruthenians - to unite against the empire or fight for their own.

    • Fiction
      October 1997

      Disorientation on the terrain

      by Yurii Andrukhovych

      These are attempts to look into the coexistence of cultural spaces: the metaphysics of landscapes; a man on his way; Central Europe as unity and uniqueness; the post-imperial search for identity. Three sections - "Introduction to geography", "Park of culture" and "About the time and method" - offer three different dimensions of the outlined problem - cultural, historical, and mytho-poetic and individual-existential."

    • Crime & mystery
      2017

      Echo of Someone Else’s War

      by Juan Miramar

      The works of Juan Miramar presented in this book, as always, are distinguished by refined language, subtle humor and a peculiar philosophical view of life, as well as a bright oriental flavor. The story "Echo of Someone Else’s War" impresses with its fascinating dynamic plot. A scientist and writer, a former translator of international peacekeeping forces, suddenly finds himself in the thick of events of a modern secret war. The distant past extends its tentacles into the present, not only forcing the main character to remember his military experience, but also prompting him to choose a side in Arab and non-Arab conflicts that are foreign to him.

    • Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
      2021

      Erosion

      by Artem Chapeye

      After a young couple returns from their vacation to the Carpathian Mountains in Ukraine, they discover that the world as they once knew it no longer exists. Tragedy happened and survivors are forced to adapt to the harsh conditions of their new reality: overcoming deeply-rooted fears, they try to forge another world where they can unite with those who still retained their humanity. Will the couple be able to survive, make alliances with others, and give birth to a new generation? Will the insidiousness of human nature manifest itself in this new world? Chapeye's post-apocalyptic novel, diluted with beautifully melancholic and black humor, is a kind of artistic study of people's behavior in critical situations when everything that once seemed stable falls apart.

    • Crime & mystery
      2020

      Express to Galicia

      by Bohdan Kolomiychuk

      Anton Piller, a former university lecturer from Switzerland, arrives in Venice to sell a unique translated manuscript and earn a large sum of money. Shortly after, he is shot dead, and his body is carried away by the canals. In 1906, in Baden, Felix, a doctor’s assistant, bribed with a precious ring, passes a secret letter to a Russian patient, Orlov, who strangely disappears from the clinic. Commissioner Vistovych, a restrained and cold-blooded Galician investigator, is drawn into the whirlpool of dangerous events. It turns out that the information from this secret document can turn not only human lives but also world history upside down. This novel is a true detective thriller, captivating the reader from beginning to end.

    • Historical fiction
      2021

      Faride

      by Irene Rozdobudko

      The beginning of the novel takes place in the 20s of the last century in the Crimea. Crimean Tatars, Ukrainians and Jews live peacefully in the village. We see a company of children of different ethnic backgrounds. Before World War II, these children graduated and were preparing for adult life. Young Crimean Tatar woman Faride works in a kindergarten. Crimea is occupied by the Nazis. They gather all the Jews to shoot them outside the village. Faride taught Jewish children from her kindergarten to say that they were Tatars, and gave them new Crimean Tatar names. The Nazis tortured her, but the children were saved. 50 years later she was awarded the title of the Righteous Among the Nations. In 1944, Crimea was liberated from the Nazis by the Soviet army. Stalin accused the Crimean Tatars of collaborating with the Nazis and ordered their expulsion from the Crimea, even those who had fought in the Soviet army. One night they are all driven from their homes and taken for months in wagons, designed to transport cattle, to camps in Siberia. Half of them died on the way from starvation and disease. Faride manages to save her young son, leaving him in the village with neighbors, but she finds herself in a Stalinist concentration camp, where she works on cutting trees. After Stalin's death, Crimean Tatars were still not allowed to return home to Crimea; they were relocated to Uzbekistan, where they lived under police surveillance until 1989, when the Soviet Union began to disintegrate. Faride returns, but her son did not come to meet her, and strangers live in her house. Faride returns forgotten, tortured by both the Nazis and the Soviet regime. The novel is based on real events, it shows the life story of one woman in parallel with the tragic history of the entire Crimean Tatar nation.

    • Relationships
      2019

      Felix Austria

      by Sofia Andrukhovych

      The events of Felix Austria unfold in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries in Stanislav, present-day Ivano-Frankivsk — an ordinary city in the Reczposolita territories of Felix Austria (Austro-Hungarian Empire), whose residents live, suffer, inseparably fall in love, delight in science and the charlatan performances of world-renowned illusionists, seek amusement at balls and carnivals, shpatzir aroun their neighborhoods, and hide secrets in the carved wooden chests. And against the backdrop of an era that, for posterity, will become overgrown in myths about an idyllic way of life, arise the fates of two women, intertwined as closely as the trunks of two trees, who are bonded in an inextricable relationship that doesn’t allow them to live or breathe, stay or leave. Drama surrounded by the luxury and buzz of the beginning of the 20th sentury.

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