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Miquel de Palol: El jardí dels set crepuscles (The Garden of Seven Twilights)

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Post published:22 March 2023
Post category:Catalonia The Modern Novel website War
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The latest addition to my website is Miquel de Palol's El jardí dels set crepuscles (The Garden of Seven Twilights). This is the first novel by the major Catalan writer…

Eugenia Kononenko: Російський сюжет (A Russian Story)

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Post published:21 March 2023
Post category:Russia The Modern Novel website Ukraine Women
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The latest addition to my website is Eugenia Kononenko's Російський сюжет (A Russian Story). This is the last in my Ukrainian marathon and, despite the title, certainly one that deals…

Alexei Nikitin: Истеми (Y.T)

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Post published:19 March 2023
Post category:The Modern Novel website Ukraine
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The latest addition to my website is Alexei Nikitin's Истеми (Y.T). In 1984 five students play a war game which involve inventing countries and transposing real historical characters to other…

Marjana Gaponenko: Wer ist Martha? (Who is Martha?)

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Post published:17 March 2023
Post category:Old age The Modern Novel website Ukraine Vienna
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The latest addition to my website is Marjana Gaponenko's Wer ist Martha? (Who is Martha?). Our hero is Luka Levadski. He is a ninety-six year old Ukrainian ornithologist. He has…

Maria Matios: Солодка Даруся (Sweet Darusya)

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Post published:15 March 2023
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The latest addition to my website is Maria Matios's Солодка Даруся (Sweet Darusya). The novel is set among the Hutsul people in the Carpathians and is told in reverse chronological…

Taras Prokhasko: НепрОсті (The Unsimple)

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Post published:13 March 2023
Post category:The Modern Novel website Ukraine World War I World War II
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The latest addition to my website is Taras Prokhasko's НепрОсті (The Unsimple). This is a post-modern, magic realism novel set in the Carpathians. It is set primarily in the fairly…

Zinaida Tulub: В степу безкраїм за Уралом (The Exile)

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Post published:11 March 2023
Post category:Exile Russia The Modern Novel website Ukraine
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The latest addition to my website is Zinaida Tulub's В степу безкраїм за Уралом (The Exile). This is novelised biography of the first exile of Ukraine's national poet Taras Shevchenko.…

Yuri Andrukhovych: Московіада (The Moscoviad

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Post published:8 March 2023
Post category:Russia The Modern Novel website Ukraine
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The latest addition to my website is Yuri Andrukhovych's Московіада (The Moscoviad. Our hero is a Ukrainian poet called Otto Wilhelmovych von F. He has a two-year stipend to write…

Oksana Zabuzhko: Польові дослідження з українського сексу (Fieldwork In Ukrainian Sex)

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Post published:7 March 2023
Post category:The Modern Novel website Ukraine Women
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The latest addition to my website is Oksana Zabuzhko's Польові дослідження з українського сексу (Fieldwork In Ukrainian Sex). Zabuzhko opens this novel all guns blazing and rarely lets up. She…

Vasyl Shevchuk: Побратими, або Пригоди двох запорожців на суходолі, в морі та під водою (Blood Brothers)

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Post published:5 March 2023
Post category:Poland The Modern Novel website Turkey Ukraine War
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The latest addition to my website is Vasyl Shevchuk's Побратими, або Пригоди двох запорожців на суходолі, в морі та під водою (Blood Brothers). This novel is set in the seventeenth…