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Three boys, Dani, Igor and Pavel, grow up as friends in Soviet Ukraine, brought up to believe in communism; as the years pass they lose that hope and drift apart. Grown up, Dani is stuck scrubbing pans in a luxury hotel in Kyiv when, at a noisy public debate, he meets Pavel again, a near-prophetic figure who has changed and soon vanishes once more. Hunting for him, Dani discovers that his friend gathers stories nobody was allowed to tell and broadcasts them by radio. Those stories move between then and now and put names and faces to the people crushed by a ruinous regime.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

253 pages in the original

Genres

Politics, Historical (assigned by AI)

Set in

Ukraine, late 1980s

First published

2023 by Hollands Diep

Author's age

41 when first published

ISBN

9789048860609 (original)