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«The worst thing is to wake up in the morning and not hear birds singing outside the window. The history of mankind will end a little later than the history of animals, birds and insects, and even then it will not be quite people," reflects Shevchenko Prize winner Halyna Pahutyak in her new novel-essay Chronicle of a Vanished City. She searches for traces of the destroyed city of Sokoliv over Stryi, names its inhabitants to pray for each of them, and as a Ukrainian and a patriot of her land, she tries to teach a history lesson to the modern reader: to show that other peoples lived in the disappeared city, besides Ukrainians, and their cultures influenced each other, and that the modern view of interethnic relations should be balanced.