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The new book of prose by Theodosia Zarivna consists of eight short stories, two novellas ("Notes on the Hem" and "The Girl from Cherry"), and a kind of essay-memoir under the general title "The Sun Rises in Chortkiv". A thoughtful reader will certainly find here both intellectual and aesthetic food. The works of T. Zarivna allow you to plunge into the skilfully recreated atmosphere of different times: the Cossack period, Stalin's and Brezhnev's "epochs", the "frantic" and notoriously phantasmagoric, from the modern point of view, "nineties", the current Russian-Ukrainian war... And behind and through all this is the figure and observation of the author, who works with words as if embroidering on a canvas or planting a pretentious flower pattern in a flower bed. Despite the overall minor mood, the book will certainly leave you with the impression of warmth and sincerity.