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Yulia Fedorchuk's book of short stories "Not Far Away" is a good example of contemporary Polish prose. Twenty-two stories about otherness, strangeness, and unusual encounters strengthen the reader's faith in the beauty and power of storytelling. In each of the stories from the collection, we meet characters for whom there is, in fact, no place in the world, and readers see reality from their perspective. That is why the world depicted by the writer is not always pleasant and not at all easy to perceive, but it always stirs up emotions.

In the afterword, the author writes: "The stories collected in this book are largely based on real experiences, my own or others'. The stories are about ordinary, grey reality. The writer shows individual existence, while at the same time giving value to the existence of her characters by placing it in a narrative. Yulia Fedorchuk talks about the relationship between human beings and animals, landscapes, land and objects, and creates her own world.

The writer in Not Far Away tries to get closer to what is most primary for humans, and according to Fedorchuk, this is telling stories and listening to them. According to her, we then "approach that dark place, experience anxiety and delight, sadness and joy, and become ourselves."