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Yuriy Makarov

Юрій Макаров

Born 1955 · Ukraine

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    BBC Ukrainian Book 2013 · Shortlist

    За чверть десята

    Za chvert desiata

    Title translated by AI:“A Quarter to Ten”

    Yuriy Makarov · 58 when first published

    Novel · 237 pages · Love, Speculative

    AI-generated summary:A lonely, widowed university teacher of foreign languages finds that his idle curses come true with uncanny literalness, and that gift, along with an affair with a young student, makes him take stock of a life lived mostly under Soviet rule.