Lit in Translation

Згори вниз

Zghory vnyz

“From the Top Down” (title translated by AI)

Tanja Maljartschuk (Таня Малярчук, born 1983)

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A nameless young woman leaves the city for a lonely mountain house in the Carpathians, in the village of Dzembronia among others, looking for calm, solitude and release from her fears. Her measured life soon becomes an immersion in a world of myths and mysteries: she meets villagers such as Auntie Mytsia and blind Varka, cats that seem to talk, wolves, love stories, deaths and stranger happenings, among them a whirlwind that carries off a grandmother's house. Reality and invention run together. The book adds shorter stories that return to fear, loneliness, love and the absurd.

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About the book

Form
Novella
Length
220 pages in the original
Set in
Ukraine
First published
2006 by Фоліо
Author's age
23 when first published
ISBN

9789660334618 (original)