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The enchanting novel by one of the leading Ukrainian writers Volodymyr Shovkoshytnyi is built in the original style of combining novels, short stories and novellas into a single literary organism. It is not only the colourful language and sophisticated sense of humour that pulsates on every page of the work that impresses, but also the depth of the protagonist's philosophical generalisations in his self-ironic observations. The tension of the plot gives way to contemplation and reflection on the eternal questions that a bright young soul faces. This is a novel of foreboding about the collapse of the evil empire, which turns millions of its citizens into a degraded mass. At the same time, the book is full of high aspirations and aspirations, where the joy of victory over often cruel circumstances and the anticipation of near happiness turns into new losses of hope, flickering disappearances. But the reader, like the hero, is pleased with the permanence of these flickers.