Philosophical digressions, fantastic images, exquisite metaphors and specific humor - everything that is so attractive in Serhiy Zhadan's works is here. Stories of Babylon, retold for those who are interested in questions of love and death. The life of the city lying between the years, biographies of characters fighting for their right to be heard and understood, a chronicle of street fights...

Poems at the turn of the era often lose their autonomy and increasingly resemble diaries. What can be found in Serhii Zhadan's new poetic diary? 50 and 1 poem, written before and after the big bang, brought together, united by a sense of language that so painfully disappears, but then inevitably returns. Stringed on the string of the voice, dependent on the sound, they, these poems, remain a...

Darka and Kat cannot imagine their life without dancing. Olya tries to find friends at a new school and support her father after the divorce. Oleg has been suffering from headaches for many years. And Dmytro doesn't know what to say to the girl he likes. The lives of these teenagers are intricately intertwined and form strange combinations, and sometimes resemble a movie. Lost friendships,...

It’s senior year, and Maeve and her friends are practicing and strengthening their mystical powers, while Maeve’s new relationship with Roe is exhilarating. But as Roe’s rock-star dreams start to take shape, and Fiona and Lily make plans for faraway colleges, Maeve, who struggles in school, worries about life without them-will she be selling incense here in Kilbeg, Ireland, until she’s...

Belly measures her life in summers. Everything good, everything magical happens between the months of June and August. Winters are simply a time to count the weeks until the next summer, a place away from the beach house, away from Susannah, and most importantly, away from Jeremiah and Conrad. They are the boys that Belly has known since her very first summer-they have been her brother figures,...

Avery Grambs has a plan for a better future: Survive high school, win a scholarship, and get out. But her fortunes change in an instant when billionaire Tobias Hawthorne dies and leaves Avery virtually his entire fortune. The catch? Avery has no idea why - or even who Tobias Hawthorne is.