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BookForum Best Book Award in the nomination «Contemporary Ukrainian Prose» (2019)
• Short list of the BBC Book of the Year (2019)
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Maryna Hrymych's novel Klavka is set in the Writers' Union of Ukraine and the Kyiv Writers' House ROLIT in 1947, when the infamous Plenum took place, known in history for the defeat of Ukrainian literature, in particular the defamation of Yuriy Yanovsky and Maksym Rylsky. But few people know that the massacre of these two classics was not limited to these two classics: Ukrainian writers - colleagues in the pen, neighbours in the house - were pitted against each other, taking advantage of their ambitions. The participants of the events came out of the difficult ethical situation in different ways - some with their heads held high and a smile on their lips, and some in shame and deathly remorse.

Klavka, the secretary of the Writers' Union, knows everything about writers, and dramatic events are taking place before her eyes. At the same time, her rather monotonous life as an old maid undergoes dramatic changes: she finds herself in the centre of a love triangle between a responsible employee of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Ukraine and a young writer who has just returned from the front.

The literary life of the 1940s, post-war Kyiv, Yevbaz, a communal apartment - this is the background against which the dynamic plot unfolds.