Червона зона

The hero is a young journalist, Anton Tsyperdiuk, living in a world divided into rich, safe "green zones" and poor, unprotected "red" ones. After committing a crime by accident, Anton has to flee into the red zone, which he fears and knows only from the media. Expecting the worst, he finds among these people, reputed to be losers, his best friends and the woman he loves. The novel is set in a Kyiv of the near future, but most of what it describes is typical of Ukraine today, taken one step further: bad roads get worse, apartment blocks turn into high-rise slums, and owners of expensive gadgets run short of clean water.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

304 pages in the original

Genres

Speculative, Politics (assigned by AI)

Set in

Ukraine

First published

2014 by Нора-Друк

Author's age

33 when first published

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