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The Yaka School series by Yakaboo Publishing presents selected works by Vasyl Stefanyk, a Ukrainian writer, master of the expressionistic short story, public figure, and politician.

The original social and psychological novels reflect the atmosphere of life in Western Ukraine at the turn of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, striking with the power of artistic truth, sharply realistic pictures, deep psychology, and unusual plot resolutions.

V. Stefanyk is the founder of a completely new genre of short fiction in Ukrainian literature - the European psychological short story. In the manner of descriptions, the author is free from the folk idealisation of the village, uses minimalist descriptions, is the creator of the concept of "image without a frame", and is distinguished by the boundary laconicism of the plots. The lively language of his short stories, in particular the use of the Pokuttya dialect, makes his short fiction a unique phenomenon in the Ukrainian literary heritage.

The collection includes works by V. Stefanyk presented in the updated educational programme for compulsory study, as well as those recommended for additional reading