The novel ‘Shoes of the Mother of God’ by the prominent Ukrainian writer Maria Mathios tells about one of the most painful tragedies of the 20th century in the territory that historian Timothy Snyder calls the ‘bloodlands’. This is a new edition of the work with new episodes.

‘Express to Galicia’ is a new detective novel by Bohdan Kolomiychuk, in which tangled cases and dangerous investigations await the reader. Spring of 1906. During a vacation in Switzerland, Lviv police commissioner Adam Vistovych unexpectedly gets involved in a dangerous spy game in which not only human lives are at stake, but also the fate of empires.

Stanislavov in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. An ordinary city on the border of ‘happy Austria’, in which they live, suffer, fall in love, admire science and charlatan performances of world-famous illusionists, have fun at balls and carnivals, go for walks and hide secrets in carved chests of drawers. And against the background of the era, which for posterity will become more and...

1905 year. The career of one of the best investigators of Galicia, Lviv commissioner Adam Vistovych, is on the rise. In order to help his younger colleague, Associate Professor Samkovsky, the commissar takes on a seemingly trivial matter. However, it turns out that its threads stretch far beyond the borders of Lviv and even beyond the borders of the empire.

The family saga in the short stories ‘Almost never the other way around’ by the prominent Ukrainian writer Maria Mathios is not inferior to her famous ‘Sweet Darusa’ in terms of skill of writing and depth of presentation. ‘It is not time that counts, but a person in the circumstances of time’ - the writer reveals this thesis through the dramatic history of several Hutsul families during the...

The book by Natalka Bilotserkivets, one of the most important contemporary Ukrainian poets, includes poems from all her collections: ‘Ballad of the Unconquered’ (1976), ‘In the Country of My Heart’ (1979), ‘Underground Fire’ (1984), ‘November’ ( 1989), ‘Allergy’ (1999), ‘Central Hotel’ (2004). This is the author's most complete selection to date.

It is difficult to find something as funny, talented and witty in our literature as this outstanding book by Vsevolod Nestaik, who is often called the Gogol of modern Ukrainian children's literature. It is not for nothing that 'Toreadors from Vasyukivka' has been translated into twenty languages and is included in Andersen's Especially Honorable List as one of the greatest works of world...

The 1930s, the times of Stalinist repressions. A young man sentenced to 25 years for love of his homeland escapes from the stage echelon of the NKVD, which transports exhausted and desperate people to a slow death in the Gulag camps. A townsman, an aircraft design engineer, finds himself in a forest thicket teeming with predators, without a map, weapons, tools, warm clothes or even food.

Ivan Drach (1936-2018) is a recognized leader of the sixties, who, with the inspiration of a juggler, twisted into one poetic orbit the golden bulb, and the theory of relativity, and synchrofazotrons wailing like lions, and washed pants, and the Communist Party, and a touching old lady, and Lenin's fanfare, and the lost cinematogram, and Chernobyl, and Rukh, and spirit, and Stanley Kunitz, who...