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From the publisher:

"Stories of Talented People. Book Two" is a continuation of the popular series "Warm Stories", almost all of whose books have become Ukrainian bestsellers. What's in this book? Life stories of people we know and love.

"Under the cover of the second book of Stories of Talented People are stories of eleven authors. This time, it will be even more difficult for me to answer the question "Why such a selection of heroes and heroines in the book?". I don't know why everything turned out this way. Among my eleven heroes and heroines, there are close friends, and there are those whom I met for the first time in person on the day of the interview. These eleven people are a kind of snapshot of what interested me during the period of work on the manuscript, from October 2014 to March 2015. Some of the stories are those I asked to be told, but there are also some that I never thought I would. As in the first book, you can read an internal plot in these stories - just like a year ago, it is completely random and appeared and became noticeable only after all the stories were ready. What is this plot?

In my eyes, this overarching story is about the fragility of life and memory. How easily and unexpectedly death can come. How painfully, quickly and forever you can be devoured by a dictatorial system. How randomly you can be saved. How suddenly you can forget everything. And how durable the matter of our memories is - even if you no longer remember what happened. The stories in this book also contain many stories of loss. The loss of a carefree childhood, the loss of inspiration and creative power, the loss of illusions, the loss of a loved one, the loss of familiar surroundings. There's also a lot of homesickness, whatever that word means in each particular case of each particular story. There is also joy and sunny days, unexpected meetings, love. And - this is the most important part - hope. Hope. And a lot of work."

Iryna Slavinska