{"id":6262,"date":"2020-07-11T13:28:31","date_gmt":"2020-07-11T10:28:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/na.sofard.dev\/?p=6262"},"modified":"2026-10-30T18:44:14","modified_gmt":"2026-10-30T16:44:14","slug":"longlist-announced-for-the-espreso-readers-choice-2020-book-award-in-the-adult-literature-category-part-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/na.sofard.dev\/en\/longlist-announced-for-the-espreso-readers-choice-2020-book-award-in-the-adult-literature-category-part-one\/","title":{"rendered":"Longlist announced for the \u201cEspreso. Readers\u2019 Choice 2020\u201d book award in the \u201cAdult Literature\u201d category (part one)"},"content":{"rendered":"

The organizing committee of the book award “Espreso. Readers’ Choice 2020” presented the Long list of books in the category “Literature for adults” (the first part of the list)<\/p>\n

During the first stage of the book award “Espreso. Readers’ Choice 2020” received 165 applications from 38 Ukrainian publishing houses. The organizing committee carefully checked all publications sent by publishing houses for compliance with the requirements. After that, Long lists of books for the competition were formed in three nominations: “Literature for adults”, “Literature for teenagers” and “Literature for children”.<\/p>\n

By the second stage, 97 publications from 29 publishing houses were included in the Long List of books in the “Literature for adults” category.<\/p>\n

The first part of the list:\u00a0<\/p>\n

“Destination Country”, Tetyana Davydenko (“Publishing House 21”)<\/p>\n

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The letters of Stepan the bear are travel essays, written on behalf of an average Ukrainian bear, sometimes in the Western hemisphere, then in the Eastern hemisphere. These are stories from various exotic countries and cities, as well as cities of Ukraine, which Stepan actually visited. There is a lot of irony and intertextuality here. Writing letters to his landlady, Stepan conducts a short course in Ukrainian and world literature. The country of destination for the bear is always Ukraine.<\/p>\n

“Strange People”, Artem Chapai (“Publishing House 21”)<\/p>\n

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Ukrainian scientists recreated a Neanderthal using DNA. He grows up in a secret institute disguised as a garage cooperative, and only after reaching adulthood does he go out into the big world. Due to the lack of life experience and peculiarities of thinking, the Ukrainian Neanderthal constantly gets into strange situations – and he looks at the local sapiens with the eyes of a somewhat naive outsider. However, it gradually turns out: everything can be more complicated. And this is not fiction. This, as one of the heroines will say on another occasion, is “rather a tragicomedy.”\u00a0<\/p>\n

“Zashmorgy”, Lesya Ivasiuk (“21 Publishing House”)\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Journalist Oresta receives a task from an Austrian actor: to find information about Ostarbaiter Maria – his father’s first wife. These searches cover several layers of time and the lives of several generations in Austria and Ukraine. Step by step Orest unravels the tangle of secrets and finds people whose existence neither she nor the customer suspected. The journalist collides two different worlds: traditionally Austrian, with its specific style, and Ukrainian, her native one. In this intellectual-historical thriller, all the characters have their own stories and tragedies, but they have one thing in common: they finally discover each other with curiosity and fear.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

“House of Pure Light”, Simor Glasenko (“21 Publishing House”)<\/p>\n

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The events of the novel “The House of Pure Light” take place in modern times in Podillya, in the fictional village of Krutoyar, which is spread out on the rocky shores of the Dniester. A new paramedic arrives here to replace the village doctor who died under mysterious circumstances. Trying to find out what really happened to his predecessor, he sets off a chain of tragic events.\u00a0
All the dark secrets that have been hidden for so long in the kingdom of the thousand-year-old Tovtr will come to light.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The author defined the genre of his third novel as “Podilskyi Gothic”, the main theme of which is redemption.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

“God[I] am free”, Yulia Hudoshnyk (“Publishing House 21”)\u00a0<\/p>\n

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The novel “God is Free” is a travel diary of a Ukrainian woman who is looking for her place in the world. These searches lead her through the worlds: from a German dormitory to a Thai island, from a Chinese village to an American metropolis, from the Danish capital to a Japanese temple. Each journey gives her wise mentors and reveals the secrets of happiness. This is a work about inner freedom, about the insatiable thirst for life and the art of being happy.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“Kokliko”, Pavlo Matyusha (“Publishing House 21”)\u00a0<\/p>\n

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2014 year. There is a war in Ukraine. A young financier with a European education loses his beloved and packs his bags for Switzerland. On the day of his departure, a childhood friend offers him a high position in the Presidential Administration. It would seem that matters of state importance will push the personal drama of the hero to the background. Meanwhile, the real dramas in his life are just beginning…\u00a0<\/p>\n

“12 Seasons of a Woman”, Ksenia Fuchs (21 Publishing House)<\/p>\n

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“12 Seasons of a Woman” can be called a novel if you consider that the main character is a modern woman. The 12 short stories, united by the main characters, but not chronologically connected, are devoted to social and psychological problems faced by modern women. Career or child? How to resist violence? How to define your own sexual identity? Do love and war really go hand in hand? These and other questions are asked by the 12 heroines of the book.<\/p>\n

“Amadoka”, Sofia Andruhovich (Stary Lev Publishing House)<\/p>\n

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Mutilated beyond recognition in one of the hot spots in Eastern Ukraine, the hero of the novel “Amadoka” only miraculously survived. This is a dubious comfort, since the severe injuries have led to a complete loss of memory: the man does not remember his name, nor where he comes from, does not remember a single close person, not a single fragment of his previous life. This is how he is found by a woman whose love and patience can work miracles: reach the deepest layers of oblivion and memories, combine scattered fragments of mutilated consciousness, stitch together a common history.\u00a0
Amadoka is the largest lake in Europe, located on the territory of modern Ukraine, first mentioned by Herodotus and reproduced on maps by medieval cartographers for several centuries, until its sudden and complete disappearance. How do great lakes evaporate without a trace, how do whole worlds, whole cultures disappear – and what remains instead? Could there be a connection between the Jewish Catastrophe of Eastern Europe and the destruction of the Ukrainian intelligentsia during Stalin’s repressions? Can the oblivion of one person reach several generations underground? Do the marks and scars of mutilated memory bind us? Can love and patience make it possible to touch the consciousness of another person?\u00a0<\/p>\n

“Mozart 2.0”, Batu Dorzh (“Stary Lev Publishing House”)<\/p>\n

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“Mozart 2.0.” \u2014 a new story by Dorzh Batu, the author of the Ukrainian bestsellers “Francesca. Mistress of trajectories” and “Francesca. The owner of the officer’s token.\u00a0
Imagine Mozart in modern New York! Yes, yes, the same, Wolfgang Amadeus. In the modern city, he is impressed and surprised by everything: the subway and noise, clothes, especially women’s, lifestyle, habits and manners of people. Even the restrooms here are so fragrant and beautiful, as if in the emperor’s palace. And also, it turns out, the modern grand piano is significantly different from the clavichord Mozart was used to… But you will have to adapt, because even though the outstanding composer got a chance for a new life, something remains unchanged – music and Mozart are inseparable. This book intertwines fiction with real and very interesting facts about Mozart’s life and work, a detective story with the participation of the composer’s new friend, the waitress Stacey, and reflections on the meaning of life. And thanks to Yulia Samelyuk’s witty illustrations and QR codes with videos that reveal the secrets of the book’s creation, readers will immerse themselves in the special atmosphere of this story.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“Ivan and Phoebe”, Oksana Lutsyshina (Stary Lev Publishing House)<\/p>\n

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“Ivan and Phoebe” is a novel by Oksana Lutsyshina, which takes place in the last years of Soviet rule and the first years of Ukrainian independence.\u00a0
After studying in Lviv and participating in the Revolution on the Granite, Ivan returns to his native Uzhgorod, where he marries the poet Maria, who calls herself Phoebe.\u00a0
Lviv and Kyiv are cities with turbulent political life, Uzhhorod, on the other hand, is distinguished by a somewhat grotesque atmosphere of patriarchal family structure and early capitalism in the Ukrainian style. Here it is easy to do without special effects from a horror or thriller: the very reality of everyday life suggests moves that can compete with the creations of King or Kusturica in terms of tension.<\/p>\n

“The most important thing is at the end”, Galina Vdovichenko (Stary Lev Publishing House)<\/p>\n

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“The most important thing is at the end” is the long-awaited new novel by Halyna Vdovichenko, a Ukrainian writer and journalist.<\/p>\n

A man and a woman are in a state of war, truce and disappointment, hope and faith. Thirty-five years together, adult children, a difficult period of life. The time when it is finally worth understanding what actually united and separated these two.\u00a0
This is a book about the ability to forgive and empathize, not to change for small things and to be attentive to each other and to yourself, appreciating every moment of this insanely fleeting life.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“Magnetism”, Petro Yatsenko (Stary Lev Publishing House)<\/p>\n

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Pyotr Yatsenko’s new novel is a magical story about how people and cities are connected in an amazing way: they attract and repel, can easily destroy each other, and can give each other life… The main character Maria, nicknamed Hayka, flees from occupied Donetsk on the last train to Kyiv and finds herself alone in a foreign big city. Even as a child, she discovered a strange knack for seeing people’s stories written on metal, and now she hears the language of houses and knows their names. Day after day, new bizarre challenges appear before her, but the most important of them is whether she will be able to save her native city, whose heart has stopped beating, with her sacrifice?\u00a0<\/p>\n

“I came back. Love”, Olga Gerasimyuk (“Stary Lev Publishing House”)<\/p>\n

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The book of the well-known Ukrainian TV presenter and public figure Olga Gerasimyuk contains essays, travelogues and images for more than ten years – from 2007 to 2019. Exciting travels await the reader, acquaintance with the history, culture, customs and mentality of many peoples, but first of all there will be meetings with people. Thoughtful and sensitive to the finest details, to the deepest psychological nuances, the author (and the heroine at the same time) will not only tell a lot about the colorful and motley world, but also remind the forgotten, pause before the sacred, reflect on the eternal. Sincere and simple, joyful and sad, touching and wise on these pages intertwine, converge and diverge, create sensitive, like a pulse, patterns of a living story, where every word is passed through the heart.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“My spare lives”, Iryna Slavinska (“Stary Lev Publishing House”)<\/p>\n

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“My spare lives” is the debut of Iryna Slavinska in essay writing. This book is a patchwork quilt, assembled from memories, reflections and considerations. Journalist, translator and producer of “Radio Kultura”, member of the Ukrainian PEN, Iryna Slavinska reflects on her personal history, the history of her family and lineage, puts together the puzzle of memories from childhood, studies, travels, work situations in translation and journalism – up to recent events. This is the definition of important moments in life \u2014 certain anchors and cultural codes with which we log ourselves into modern reality. Marking lost links of memory that require awareness but are not always recoverable. The stories of other people, or even of other countries, which can be lived as if it were one’s own spare life.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“Unequal Marriage”, Nina Fialko (Educational Book – Bohdan Publishing House)<\/p>\n

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In this collection, you will find short stories, novellas, and novellas written over the past few years. Some of them have already been published in regional literary magazines. These human stories are true and fascinating, they are taken from our lives, so they will not leave anyone indifferent. The book is intended for a wide range of readers.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“Anthropos and the Bible”, Ivan Luchuk (“Educational Book – Bohdan” Publishing House)\u00a0<\/p>\n

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“Anthropos and the Bible” is a collection of various essays by the Lviv writer and scientist Ivan Luchuk. Deep and informative, they cover the most complete spectrum of the author’s interests: Ukrainian Latin, polyglot, peculiarities of the writing craft, modern realities and universal human problems. The reader will familiarize himself with little-known pages of Ukrainian history, learn interesting details from the lives of famous writers, and be amazed by the results of etymological research.<\/p>\n

“Geometry for the 21st century. A book for inquisitive students and thoughtful participants”, Ihor Sharygin (“Teaching Book – Bohdan” Publishing House)\u00a0<\/p>\n

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The book of a well-known figure in school mathematics education, the author of numerous collections of original problems, textbooks and manuals for students and teachers, an active propagandist of in-depth study of mathematics and the Olympiad movement among schoolchildren I.F. Sharygina (1937\u20132004). The first part of the book presents a selection of the author’s inspired journalistic and methodical-didactic articles, in which the reader’s attention is drawn to the special and irreplaceable role of geometry in the overall cultural, creative-intellectual, and emotional-aesthetic development of a person. Numerous specific recommendations to teachers and education leaders to improve the teaching of geometry at school are substantiated. In the second part, the collection of “500 geometric problems” is presented, which represents an unbiased and unmasked by optimistic propaganda, the author’s measure of the real standards of school geometric training at three educational levels – low, medium and high. Solutions and methodical comments are added to the problems. Therefore, each student can from time to time “try on” this standard and make appropriate adjustments to his training, and each teacher can measure the achieved learning results of his students. The book is for everyone who is actively involved in school mathematics, that is, as the subtitle says, inquisitive students and thoughtful teachers. It will be useful for students of pedagogical universities of physical and mathematical profile, who see their future profession as a high calling.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“Infections and people. Reflections of a clinician”, Mykhailo Adreichyn (Educational Book – Bohdan Publishing House)\u00a0<\/p>\n

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The author gave vivid memories of the patients he remembered most during his 55 years of professional work as an infectious disease doctor. An important place in the memories is given to reflections on cooperation with colleagues, individual achievements and mistakes made, the specifics of infections, and the moral and psychological characteristics of infectious patients. This is, without exaggeration, an exciting publication \u2014 the first of this genre and subject in Ukraine.\u00a0
The book is addressed to young doctors, medical students and a wide range of readers who are interested in infectious and parasitic diseases, their diagnosis, treatment and prevention.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“Unfading force. Popular scientific and popular journalistic works with an appendix of analytical materials from the point of view of today”, Ivan Pulyuy (“Teaching Book – Bohdan” Publishing House)<\/p>\n

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The book presents two popular scientific and two popular journalistic works of the outstanding domestic scientist-physicist, inventor, publicist and public figure Ivan Pulyuy (1845-1918). In the first of them, “Inexhaustible Power”, which determined the title of the entire book, it is about the discovery and universal manifestations of the fundamental physical law of energy conservation (according to the author’s terminology, “the law of inexhaustible power”), as well as about the beneficial influence of this law on the moral power of the human spirit.\u00a0
One of the manifestations of the physical law of inexorable force is the flashes, pulsations and extinction of stars. Ivan Puluy’s second popular science work – “New and Changing Dawns” – is devoted to detailing these physical-astronomical phenomena from the point of view of contemporary science. In it, the author also repeatedly throws bridges from the problems of natural science to the sphere of spiritual life, ethics and morality. The journalistic work “A few memories of Kulish and his wife Anna Barvinok” presents a wide range of information on the history of Ukrainian cultural life of the second half of the 19th and early 20th centuries, in particular, on the history of the creation and publication of the first Ukrainian translation of the Bible, in which Ivan Pulyuy was directly involved.\u00a0
The brochure “Ukraine and its International Political Significance”, published at the height of the First World War, presents a penetrating historical and perspective analysis of the “Ukrainian question” in the pan-European context, which still has not lost its relevance.\u00a0
The second part of the book consists of analytical materials of leading domestic specialists, which present modern views on physical phenomena described in the popular scientific works of I. Puluy, and also characterize his ascetic activity in science, from the translation of the Holy Scriptures and the affirmation of the native language<\/p>\n

“Transformation of the Ukrainian National Idea”, Editor – Oles Donii (“Nash Format” Publishing House)<\/p>\n

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In this collection, 30 famous Ukrainian historians, philosophers, political scientists, and cultural scientists give their own answers to questions about how the “Ukrainian idea” developed, why and at what stage it slowed down, and what should be done so that the “Ukrainian idea” becomes the “Ukrainian dream” again. Publication for those who want to understand Ukrainian values \u200b\u200band are ready for their renewal.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“Ctoritelling for eyes, ears and heart”, Mark Levine (Our Format Publishing House)<\/p>\n

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Everything in the world can be told through a story. Whatever you write about, the information will become brighter and more interesting if you wrap it in this format. It is the story, not dry facts, that helps to emotionally engage and persuade your audience.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

In this book, Mark Levin explains how to learn to hear and see stories, deepen your own understanding of the text, and write engagingly. He also conducts conversations with famous Ukrainian writers, advertisers, and journalists who talk about their approaches to storytelling and writing texts.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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“The Point of No Return”, Dmytro Verbych (Our Format Publishing House)\u00a0<\/p>\n

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This story is about modern Ukrainian knights with different lifestyles: a vegetarian who sold diesel fuel in Nigeria, a free-fight trainer, a traveler and many others. However, in one moment, the point of no return has come for them, after which life can no longer be the same as before. The war began.\u00a0<\/p>\n

In this book, volunteer battalion fighter Dmytro Verbych talks about the active phase of hostilities in 2014-2015, when the whole country waited with bated breath for news from the east of Ukraine. He frankly tells about the many faces of enemies at the front: separatists, Russian special forces, cold, hunger and dirt. About how the first volunteers sometimes went to the front with only knives. About how to make decisions that affect not only your life.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“From leaky sneakers to millions of dollars. The incredible story of Slava Medvedenka”, Maksym Gayovy (“Nash Format” Publishing House)<\/p>\n

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As a child, Slava Medvedenko hated basketball: he was the tallest in the class, so everyone advised him to play this sport. As a teenager, the boy fell in love with this game, but for the opportunity to travel and buy… yogurt, chewing gum and bottles of soda (it was the “bad nineties”!). But over the years, priorities have changed. Basketball became a life’s work for Slava, to which he devoted so much time that he literally rubbed the holes in his sneakers. He played for teams from Ukraine, Lithuania, and later played for the NBA clubs “Lakers” and “Atlanta”.\u00a0
How did an ordinary boy from Kyiv’s Darnytsia manage to achieve this? What is it like to play with Kobe Bryant or Shaquille O’Neal? What prevents the development of professional basketball in Ukraine and how to inspire children who are just starting to play sports? This is sincerely and honestly told in the story of Slava Medvedenka, which was described by sports journalist Maksym Gayovy.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“I will mix your blood with coal.” Understanding the Ukrainian East”, Oleksandr Mykhed (Our Format Publishing House)<\/p>\n

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At the end of 2016, Oleksandr Mykhed went on a trip to six cities of the Donetsk and Luhansk regions, researching the life there, as well as the stories hidden in the archives. However, the most important thing for the author is to hear the voices of local residents. Unearthing layers of history and layering of myths, the writer tells the amazing story of the East, which British and Belgian investors, imperial and Soviet rulers tried to tame. How is one of the oldest turtles in the world connected with the founding of Donetsk? What is the price of each ton of mined coal? And what stories are hidden in the free steppes of the Wild Field?\u00a0
Oleksandr Mykhed shares unique conversations with famous writers, artists, and historians who were born in the East: Serhii Zhadan, Alletva Kahidze, Igor Kozlovsky, Roman Minin, Volodymyr Rafeenko, and Elena Stiazhkina. People who, since the war, help to understand the horror of the new everyday life and understand the many voices of the Ukrainian East.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“ProZorro. To do the impossible in the Ukrainian government”, Maksym Nefyodov, Fedir Krikun (“Nash Format” Publishing House)\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Prozorro is the most famous state startup in Ukraine. Leaving behind the old system of public procurement, it emerged as a modern company with a powerful staff of developers and new approaches to management and marketing.\u00a0
Since the project appeared in Ukraine, two parliaments and four governments have changed, but Prozorro continues to develop and seems to be firmly on its feet. However, is this really the case? In this book, system ideologist Maksym Nefyodov and former PR coordinator of the Prozorro team, Fedir Krykun, describe the ups and downs of the project firsthand. They tell how the company was able to enter the fenced and previously closed territory of public procurement and change the rules of the game in one of the most corrupt spheres.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“Conquer your Everest. How to turn a defeat into a victory”, Tetyana Yalovchak (Nash Format Publishing House)\u00a0<\/p>\n

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What are you ready to do to achieve your goal? Tetyana Yalovchak sold her apartment to become the first Ukrainian woman to climb Mount Everest. But one step closer to victory, she did not begin to arrange a race with her competitor, because the mountain had already taken many lives. However, Tatyana did not give up and still reached the top. And a year later, she became the first Ukrainian record holder to conquer the highest points of all continents.\u00a0
In the book, the author talks about her difficult childhood in a small mining town, her love for sports and the desire to be ahead, which turned into a desire to constantly win new victories. You will find out what the true price of Everest is: what happens to the body at an altitude of more than 8,000 m, how to survive 40 days on an expedition in sub-zero temperatures and not sleep for 72 hours. The author humorously talks about the difficulties on her way, and also gives the most important rule for conquering the summit – to stay alive.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“There where at home”, Maksym Kryvtsov, Marko Teren, Vlad Sord, Yulia Ilyukha, Valery Puzik, Yulia Batkilina, Oleksandr Lysak, Nataliya Marynchak (ASSA Publishing House)<\/p>\n

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“Where At Home” is 112 poems by volunteers and soldiers about love and war.\u00a0\u00a0
Fighting has been going on in the east of Ukraine for five years now. Among us there are people who received a traumatic experience in this war, but were able to sublimate it into creativity. Eight modern young poets and poets participate in the collection “Where at Home”: four male soldiers who performed (or are currently performing) combat tasks in the ATO\/OSS zone, and four women who in 2014-2018 volunteered and helped the army, waited for men from the war, supported and cared for those who devoted themselves to serving others.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“The Guild of Butchers. Chervonohorod”, Yulia Cherninka (“Kartush” Publishing House)<\/p>\n

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Martis Zorya is a world-famous ballet dancer. After a serious injury, a man comes to Zalishchyki to rest and write a book of memoirs. He meets strange people almost from the platform. The behavior of the city’s inhabitants is eccentric and mysterious. All of them are subordinate to a bizarre organization with slaughterhouses – the Butchers’ Guild. The townspeople do not like foreigners. They have been guarding their secrets for hundreds of years and now they won’t give up so easily.\u00a0\u00a0
The remnants have the shape of an eye. There are only three such places in the world. This is a magical land referred to in ancient treatises as Terra Oculus. Life in the quiet district center went on calmly and harmoniously until a stranger arrived. But is Martis really a stranger to them?\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

“Avenger from the Truskavets resort”, Boris Savchenko, Yurii Golichenko, Taras Metyk (“KOLO” Publishing House)<\/p>\n

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Literary retelling of the script. The upcoming film is about a free man. Free from hypocrisy and duties imposed on individuals by an imperfect society, about the confrontation between culture and barbarism, free reign and invasion. Against the background of the events of the last century, taking place in the wonderful tourist city of Galicia, love, patriotism, and other values \u200b\u200bare depicted, which give meaning to the lives of each of us and encourage us to make our world peaceful and more humane every day with small steps.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

“The Game of Brands”, Oleksiy Filanovskyi (“Our Format” Publishing House)<\/p>\n

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First of all, creating a great brand is an art, but on the other hand, it is a system of well-defined steps that the company must implement. To achieve success, a marketer must think creatively, understand all stages of building and forming a brand. How to create a brand “from scratch”? Is it even possible? How to turn a classic company into an icon? Does every company need a brand? The book “The Game of Brands” reveals the answers to these frequent questions of marketers and entrepreneurs.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“Model series. Chronicles”, Rostislav Shpuk (“Drunken Ship” Publishing House)<\/p>\n

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This is a table book of spilled stories. The direct speech of her characters is similar to arbitrary streams of consciousness with changing channels. The random meaning of words is rejected here, each of them has a polarity, an exact place in relation to the other. Because her heroes are people with extraordinary understanding.\u00a0
But will there be an opportunity to use it in practice? Especially when the practice turns out to be life itself, and one that is in constant opposition to the usual course of events.\u00a0
Plunging into the trip of this reading gives an opportunity to start looking for an answer, bringing to such points of vision different degrees of expressiveness, from which it becomes funny and exciting to observe everything. You can only find yourself in these points alone. Because a book, like a person, is still a means of non-mass information, even if it is mass.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“Mutiny. Unspeakable cults”, Volodymyr Kuznetsov (“Zhupansky Publishing House”)\u00a0<\/p>\n

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The distant future. The New Empire – the united humanity of the Earth, the Moon and Mars – is waging a fierce struggle for its own existence. Her opponents are otherworldly beings from other layers of the Multiverse, her guide is the freed god Gagantoa, who has been imprisoned on Earth since ancient times. Humanity was gifted by a rebellious god with the technologies of interplanetary communication, quantum computing, and distributed intelligence. However, his enemies are the civilizations of beings from another space-time and the Otherworldly Gods. And also those of people who consider the chosen path wrong and destructive.
The eternal dilemma of Man – which path is true? Per omnia saecula saeculorum, world without end – or Bellum omnium contra omnes, war without end?\u00a0
On the mother ship “Sinano” – the oldest and most powerful representative of the United Fleet of the Empire, a mutiny breaks out, bloody and merciless. Who started it, what will it lead to, and most importantly, how is it related to the events of a thousand years ago, which have already become the cornerstone of human history?\u00a0
Volodymyr Kuznetsov is a writer, musician, engineer and game designer from the east of Ukraine, known to Ukrainian readers primarily as an author working in the genres of horror and fantasy. His new novel is created at the intersection of science fiction, space opera and Lovecraftian horror. This is a puzzle book, a book that each reader can put together as he likes – and get his own experience and insight from it.\u00a0
Occult technologies and Ancient Gods from another space-time. Solar system-wide wars and impersonal quantum intelligences. How immutable is the human essence – and what can change it? At what price can Freedom be obtained – and where is the threshold beyond which that freedom turns into a new slavery? Ultimately, what is free will, and does it even exist?\u00a0
If the Ancient Gods respond to human prayers – who is able to hear their answer and not lose their mind trying to understand it?\u00a0<\/p>\n

“The Case of the Missing Ballerina”, Oleksandr Krasovytskyi, Yevgenia Kuzhavska (“Folio” Publishing House)<\/p>\n

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Can a ballerina disappear without a trace in the middle of a theater crowd? Hundreds of spectators and no witnesses. Obviously, someone has thought through all the details. The police are in no hurry to look for a representative of the Kyiv bohemian, so the sister of the missing woman turns to the retired investigator. Taras Adamovych Galushko, a connoisseur of measured life and work in an apple orchard, long ago gave up the hustle and bustle of investigations.\u00a0<\/p>\n

He is not too eager to take up this case, but one of the versions does not give him peace. Perhaps the gang of “hyacinth pickers” has resumed its activities in Kyiv?\u00a0
The novel starts the “Historical Detective” series – its plot is based on real events. The investigation, unfolding in Kyiv in 1916, reveals many secrets and allows you to fully immerse yourself in the atmosphere of the city during the First World War.<\/p>\n

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In the second stage, each expert will choose five candidate books from this list, which they will place in order of ranking.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Accordingly:\u00a0<\/p>\n

1st place (5 points) \u2014 winner and further\u202f\u00a0<\/p>\n

II place (4 points),\u00a0<\/p>\n

III place (3 points),\u00a0<\/p>\n

IV place (2 points),\u00a0<\/p>\n

V place (1 point).\u00a0<\/p>\n

The organizing committee, by counting points, will determine 3 books in each of the nominations, which will go to the third stage of voting. These finalist works will be presented at the discretion of readers in libraries almost throughout Ukraine. During this voting, the final winner will be determined.\u202f\u00a0<\/p>\n

Book prize “Espreso. “Readers’ Choice” was founded by the NGO “Demforum” and the TV channel “Espreso”. Its presentation took place on May 18, 2017 as part of the “Book Arsenal” in Kyiv.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The award is designed to celebrate the best Ukrainian modern literary novelties of the year, to support the interest of Ukrainians in reading domestic authors. To help readers choose interesting books, and publishers to find a way to readers. The winners of the Award will be announced at the end of November 2020 on the air of the “Espreso” TV channel, on the “Espreso.TV” and “Demforum” websites.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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