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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.