- BBC Ukrainian Book of the Year 2020 · Shortlist
Я бачу, вас цікавить пітьма
Ya bachu, vas tsikavyt pitma
“I See You Are Interested in the Dark” (title translated by AI)
Illarion Pavliuk (Ілларіон Павлюк, born 1980)
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Andrii Haister, a criminal psychologist from Kyiv, is sent as a consultant to Buskiv Sad, a godforsaken village where a little girl disappeared one winter night. The village also harbours the Beast, a serial killer whose murders the locals would rather not see. In this cursed place, where everything goes round in circles and people live lives they hate, the investigation keeps hitting dead ends. Andrii believes the girl is still alive and that he will find her, but no one apart from him seems to care. The novel is about impenetrable human indifference and the darkness inside us, about honesty with oneself and the price people will pay to forget.
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About the book
- Form
- Novel
- Length
- 662 pages in the original
- Genres
- Crime (assigned by AI)
- Set in
- Ukraine
- First published
- 2020 by Видавництво Старого Лева
- Author's age
- 40 when first published
- ISBN
9786176798323 (original)