Oles Ilchenko

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• Порт Житана

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  BBC Ukrainian Book 2020 · Shortlist

  Порт Житана

  Port Zhytana

  AITitle translated by AI:“Port Gitane”

  Oles Ilchenko · 63 when first published

  Novel · 255 pages · Historical, Migration

  AIAI-generated summary:A small restaurant on Lake Geneva links Marko Mazur, a Ukrainian émigré painter famous in interwar Paris, and Serhii Kovalenko, an art historian collecting for a Kyiv oligarch who tries to solve the mystery of Mazur's disappearance.

• Місто з химерами

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  BBC Ukrainian Book 2009 · Shortlist

  Місто з химерами

  Misto z khymeramy

  AITitle translated by AI:“The City with Chimeras”

  Oles Ilchenko · 52 when first published

  Novel · 160 pages · Historical, Crime

  AIAI-generated summary:Two present-day teenagers in Kyiv try to decode the secrets of the architect Władysław Horodecki, builder of the House with Chimeras, while a parallel line follows Horodecki himself in the early twentieth century.