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discover higher truths about herself and her culture, and
in the process, about the human condition altogether. Her
highly textured narrative tells her characters’ story on their
own terms, following the tragic fate of a traumatized young
village girl Darusya and her family in reverse chronological
order, eventually revealing the childhood sources of the
trauma at the end of the novel. The novel is currently being
made into a feature film.
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The prose writer
Tanya Malyarchuk
(Таня Малярчук,
born in Ivano-Frankivsk, 1983) seems to distance herself
from contemporary trends in finding her own literary
voice. Her major collections of shorter prose works include
From Above Looking Down. A Book of Fears
(2006),
How
I Became a Saint
(2006),
To Speak
(2007),
Word Bestiary
(2009), and
A Divine Comedy
(2009). Her novel under the
title
Biography of an Accidental Miracle
appeared in 2012.
She is a skillful storyteller with an impressive acumen for
presenting the psychology of her characters. Many of her
prose pieces, drawn from childhood experience, avoid
copious descriptive detail and comprise vignettes that,
despite their seeming simplicity, give significantly deeper