From 25 to 28 spring, VDNG will host “Book Country” – one of the largest book festivals in the region. We selected 10 of the most popular books that were widely joked about at the festival: from the new novel by Irenia Carpi, “My Boy Turns in a Week,” to the latest book by gymnast Annie Rizatdinova, “My Romance with Sports.”
“The wine turns into a week”, Irena Karpa
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Incredibly, one of the most popular books this autumn is the 500-story novel “Win Turns in a Week” by the writer and singer Irena Karpi (“Good News from the Aral Sea”). Irena worked on the book for three days, writing between Paris and Kiev – the places where her life is going through today. This novel takes place in Paris, where the main character, the architect Vera, is alive with the same man, and a French man is at the front where a man named Atreus is defending Ukraine. A correspondence begins between the heroes, and although they are separated by kilometers and live different lives, the two become the closest people to each other.
“Win turns into a week” is sensitive, polyphonic, filled with heroes and books about love in the end of war and about those we hope to live and face in the darkest hour.
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“Vroztich”, Irina Vigovska
“Vroztich” is a sad, humorous and feminist novel about joy and life after it. The main heroine of the story is the 30-year-old artist Zera, a friend and mother of two children. The novel begins with a scene in which Zera learns about the safety of her husband Mosha in front of her sleeping family. The stench lingers in other minds for a long time, in order to straighten everything out. They talk, they laugh, they pretend, and they seem to find a way out of the crisis. Then a full-scale war begins, the heroine disagrees with the man, reaches a volunteer organization, where she knows the khan. Prote and this hundred-year-olds become traumatic for Zeri…
The author of the novel, Irina Vigovska, is a brilliant editor at The Village and Bazilik Media. It seems that “Vroztich” is a book that can be a mirror for anyone and be wrapped up in the words “You are not alone.”
Vidavnitstvo “Tse scho”
“Theatre, YouTube, sex”, Yaroslava Kravchenko
Yaroslava Kravchenko, journalist, TV presenter, producer and founder of the “Wild Theatre”, ex-student of “Ebout”, wrote a full book about the path of power, which she calls “a manifesto of a sad woman who lives her life honestly, takes fakapii transformation and become yourself without embellishment.” The book of 38-year-old Yaroslav, who was born in Uman, dreamed of playing volleyball professionally as a child, received theatrical coverage in Kiev, and began to come home to us as a TV presenter, sharing special evidence, favors, and twists. turns the share – and work without self-irony, pain and great inner freedom.
Stretovych
“I Want”, Gillian Anderson
“I want” is a book that has every chance of becoming a writer. Her actor Gillian Anderson collected anonymous lists of wives from all over the world (including the middle ones and the last one), from whom they are free to share sexual fantasies. According to the words of the 55-year-old actor, the idea of the book was taken from the series “State of Medicine,” de Anderson played the brilliant and wise Jean Milbourn, a doctor-sexologist whose shady son may be addicted A couple of hundred years old with men, and in another season they give birth to a child, not knowing who the father is. While working on the book, Anderson collected anonymous pages from women from all over the world, whom she asked to share their sexual fantasies. In Anderson's words, the book is “a sweeping and twisting portrait of female sexuality and what it means to be a woman today.”
“One more side”
“Hort. First character”, Olga Navrotska
“Hort. The First Character” is a luscious fantasy about magic, Ukrainian traditions and the struggle between good and evil, written by artist, designer and director Olga Navrotskaya. The book tells the story of a young Cossack-characterist, Hort, who is inspired by mystical values that symbolize the spirit of the nation. The book, created by the writer Olga Navrotskaya and the director Alan Badoev, reveals the great saga about the Cossacks and is worthy of the interpretation of Ukrainian fantasy with the spirit of Cossack culture.
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“We know our Marseille”, Inna Miroshnichenko
Inna Miroshnichenko is a lawyer, a huge activist and a legal specialist: two people at the same time with a man, TV presenter Timur Miroshnichenko, adopted a yard boy Marcel, having two biological children, Miya and Marco. This story was made public to highlight problems in the area of children's rights. And in 2024, the nine-year-old Angelina was added to the family. At the door and soft book, Inna shares a wet testimony of guilt, and also speaks about the wet path of the profession and career, bringing to light the different roles of a mother. In a typical social mission, there is a time for everything that is your priority – but it is not a myth, but a special strategy that has been correctly developed.
Stretovych
“My romance with sports”, Anna Rizatdinova
Anna Rizatdinova is one of the most successful Ukrainian athletes, rhythmic gymnast, bronze medalist of the 2016 Olympic Games, world champion with the right hoop (2013), rich medalist. world and European championships. In a book with a rich description called “My Romance with Sports”, the lens of Ukrainian rhythmic gymnastics vividly reveals how fear was caused, therefore disappointment, or approaching death. This story urges us not to give up – although there is no more strength left.
“Plot”
“Against cultural amnesia”
Within the framework of the “Book Land” there will be a presentation of a new book by literary scholar Vira Ageeva “Against Cultural Amnesia”, which explores the role of memory in the molded national identity.
Vira Ageeva speaks about the Ukrainian evidence as a constant struggle for the right to remember in the minds, since the colonialists blocked us from learning about their past and forced them to interpret it. I forgot about the policy without even stopping at all. By revealing rich stories, interpreting classic and contemporary texts, the author shows that preserving collective memory is the key to changing the minds of a nation.
“Vikhola”
“Women write: happy”
Another volume of the “Women Write” series, dedicated to the unknown works of Ukrainian writing between the 19th and 20th centuries. As far as we know, the author destroys the nourishment of happiness – through self-importance, through activity and private experiences, at critical moments. The texts tell about wives who search for their happiness and explore what they can. The book, as arranged by the literary scholar Anastasia Evdokimova, contains a selection of works by Lesia Ukrainka, Lyubova Yanovskaya, Lyudmila Starytska-Chernyakhivska, Ganny Barvinok, Nadiya Kibalchich and other authors.
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“Another wine. An almanac of feminist poetry”
A unique collection for all ages of poetry and the strength of a woman’s voice, “Another Wine” brings together 100 verses from 50 current Ukrainian authors. Following the words of the leader Olenya Pavlova and Olya Novak, the anthology symbolically continues the legacy of Ukrainian feminists – the almanac “The First Vinok”. And also show me what you have made for about 140 years. Even as poetry sounds, tradition is uninterrupted, and the hours of war show how important Ukrainian culture is.
