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Book 1: The Clavka

• BookForum Best Book Award in the nomination "Contemporary Ukrainian Prose" (2019)
• The BBC Book of the Year Shortlist (2019)

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 destruction 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 happening right 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.

Book 2. Yura

Maryna Hrymych's novel Yura is a sequel, that is, an independent continuation of the novel Klavka (2019), which became a national bestseller and the best book of the 2019 Publishers Forum in the prose genre. Maryna Hrymych is the author of more than 20 novels of various genres, a member of the National Union of Writers of Ukraine and PEN Ukraine.

Kyiv, 1968, the end of the Thaw. Yura, a physics student, a successful Komsomol leader, and a promising young scientist, finds himself in the grip of difficult circumstances and in the hell of his own doubts: he needs to make a moral choice, but he feels that he is not ready for it. After all, his life is a kind of buffer between two worlds - on the one hand, the world of the "golden youth", the children of the secretaries of the Communist Party of Ukraine, the Komsomol, and the KGB, and on the other hand, the world of his mother Klavka, who is one of those nameless and unheroic representatives of the Ukrainian intelligentsia who hold a powerful rear for the Sixties.

Book 3. Lara

"Lara" is a threequel to Marina Hrymych's novel "The Clothier". Readers have already fallen in love with the 26-year-old protagonist. Thanks to her, they are immersed in the everyday life of Kyiv in the 1940s, in particular the Ukrainian writing community of that time, and at the same time follow the intrigue of her private life with interest.

In the sequel, Yura, Klavka appears as the mother of a physics student; both of them are caught up in the whirlwind of the difficult events of 1968, which take place in the literary and university circles of Kyiv, and the love story that began in the first novel is developed.

Lara is already Klavka's granddaughter. The image of this gifted but very peculiar girl is revealed, again, through the observations, experiences, and reflections of Klavka, who has to steer the family ship through the times of the Chernobyl disaster. Lara is the daughter of Yura and a Crimean Tatar woman, and in the novel she will have to make her first serious choice. She will also have to navigate the piquant deja vu situation surrounding the love affair that began in Klavka and continued in Yura.