Book Artem Chapai (set of 4 books)
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Ukrainian scientists have recreated a Neanderthal using DNA. He grows up in a secret institute disguised as a garage co-operative, and only after reaching adulthood does he go out into the big world. Due to his lack of life experience and peculiarities of thinking, the Ukrainian Neanderthal constantly finds himself in strange situations - and looks at the local sapiens with the eyes of a somewhat naive outsider. However, it gradually turns out that everything can be more complicated. And this is not science fiction. This is, as one of the characters says on another occasion, "more of a tragicomedy."
Book 2. Terrarium. The Adventure
"Terrarium" begins as a realistic, documentary testimony to a closed world: yesterday's schoolboy suddenly finds himself in the academy of the special service. However, as the story progresses, the suspicion grows that the text is about something else: the deconstruction of myths, the spirit of the era of change, escape from reality, the psychology of loneliness and self-destruction. The work is being published for the first time."
"Adventure" is an updated (and final) edition of the popular novel about a year and a half of travelling without money, without a plan, and sometimes without the necessary documents. The author travels by "diesel to New York" and then hitchhikes through Mexico, Cuba, Belize, and further south in Central America for a living. In combination with the story "Terrarium", "The Adventure" as a story of desperate freedom is perceived in a new way. These texts are a thesis and an antithesis that make up the whole."
Both works are not recommended for persons under 16 years of age.
The Ukraine deliberately violates the boundary between fiction and documentary: some parts of the text literally reproduce reality, while others are a product of imagination. Will every reader understand which is which? And does it really matter? After all, a work of fiction can be more believable than absurd reality. The fragments of The Ukraine are tangentially connected, like in a jigsaw puzzle, and from their totality, the outlines of Ukraine at the beginning of the twenty-first century emerge in relief. Or the Ukraine, as the characters ironically call it.
How much will people really change in extreme conditions? Probably, even after the end of the world, someone will intrigue and quarrel, take and give bribes, flounder for privilege, spread hatred or conspiracy theories - and someone, on the contrary, will care for the weak and help others, seek justice and show mercy, love, even joke despite everything. Or maybe the same person will do both?