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The stories of Anna Agnich from Kyiv are returning to Ukraine. It is hard to write that she will not see this book. But the language of these texts is accompanied by an amazing "light breath". Even when it comes to the hardest and most terrible things, the author does not hit the keys - he allows the reader to feel the air between the lines.

I really wanted the story «Arthur» - about the Chornobyl events, the power of which is still alive in Kyiv residents, to appear in Ukrainian. And in the Ukrainian that was spoken by a Ukrainian-speaking teenager in Kyiv at the time. This was the beginning of a collaboration with Mykhailo Brynykh, a virtuoso editor and a Kyiv teenager in the 80s."

The memory and pain of the Second World War from the story "Messendorf" are combined in this book with the turmoil of modern man, especially with his loneliness. Loneliness takes on different faces. Anna Agnich has the opportunity to observe the everyday life of those who have left their native country, and her narrative style is surprisingly accurate in conveying the various voices and nuances of experience.

Each story formed its own, so to speak, "light pole" during translation, and keeping it alive was probably the most difficult task for the translator. The impression of the story "Gloucester" was particularly lasting. It seems to be saturated with sea air, the smell of fish, names of purely sailor's, ship's things, in it the space of imagination and imaginary space captures the boy and his grandparents, and this is the relationship that one can dream of in search of understanding : right;">Natalia Belchenko