Trafika Europe 7 - Ukrainian Prayer

Trafika Europe 7

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. 7 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

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