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The Timestealers (novel excerpt)
Taras Antypovych
Ukrainian science fiction writer
Taras Antypovych was born in
Poltava in 1978. He received his
degree in journalism from Ivan
Franko Lviv National University
and has worked as a journalist
variously.
He is the author of four books, including
Misery
(2007)
(which received a Book of the Year award for best prose
debut);
The Body and Fate: A Cycle of Stories
(2008);
The
Mystery: A Sentimental Tale
(2009), and
Chronos: The
History of an Invention
(2011), now being translated into
English under the title
The Timestealers
.
This inventive novel has garnered considerable attention
and success in Ukraine. The excerpts here represent its
English-language debut.
Translated from Ukrainian by Michael M. Naydan.