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Fourteen-year-old Marta has suffered a real catastrophe: after years of absence, her mother's brother has returned, moved into the same apartment and started to harass the young girl, molesting her. Finding no understanding or support from her parents, Marta decides to take a desperate step bordering on a crime - and at the same time learns that she is an adopted child, and the name of her real mother is a secret. A series of dramatic events, as it seems to Marta, leads her family and herself to a dead end.

«Those Who Are Not There» is a book about psychological violence and resistance to it, capricious forms of queer sexuality, the problems of foster children and generational conflicts that are still influenced by the "soviet" reality. The novel is set in the summer of 2013.

Those Who Are Not There is published in Ukrainian for the first time in its full version.