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Despite the title, these sketches are not about seminarists but about the Kherson nautical school of the fishing industry, nicknamed the Sprat. They are cheerful, colourful stories of school life: how future sailors studied, slipped away without leave, fell in love and made friends, in Kherson in the years of Soviet stagnation. Their characters bear the names of classic Ukrainian writers. Among them is a buxom teacher who counts how many roubles and dollars her husband brings back from each voyage, smuggling done supposedly "for the school", and frozen hake fed to the whole country, along with some lyrical moments of the kind young cadets allow themselves.

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About the book

Form

Short stories

Length

223 pages in the original

Set in

Ukraine

First published

2011 by Темпора

Author's age

45 when first published

ISBN

9786175690352 (original)