За чверть десята

Mykola Pavlovych, a lonely university teacher of foreign languages, a polyglot and bon vivant, suddenly notices that his offhand curses come true with astonishing literalness: when the caretaker refuses him a projector and he wishes her bald, a billboard falls on her the next day. This, together with an affair with Nastia, a young and uninhibited student, makes him look back and draw up a provisional balance of his life: conflicts with his parents in the 1960s and 1970s, Elvis and Yves Montand, a not quite tolerated passion for foreign languages and the West. That past still reaches into the present, as when a security service officer tracks him down over strange incidents in Pechersk.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

237 pages in the original

Genres

Love, Speculative (assigned by AI)

Set in

Ukraine

First published

2013 by Нора-Друк

Author's age

58 when first published

ISBN

9786176880158 (original)

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