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The new book by the winner of the Taras Shevchenko National Prize of Ukraine includes works of the last decade. Depicting modern Ukrainian life in the fullness of its tragic, comic, and even absurd manifestations, the writer focuses on a thinking person who seeks to escape from traditional mythological reverie to enlightened historical deeds. Epic thinking, authenticity of folk speech, attention to family and ancestral issues highlight the mysterious Polissya region, from which the author draws plots for his stories like from an inexhaustible well.

The artistic design of the publication uses reproductions of paintings by Roman Petruk from the triptych «Life»: «The Day Before…» (cover, footers, p. 5), «The Life Boat» (p. 13), «Life goes on» (p. 157), scanned copies of handwritten texts by the author's mother - Iryna Havrylivna Mykolaychuk, as well as author's fonts by Vasyl Chebanyk «Ruthenia».
Collection of Vyacheslav Medvid's postcards