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“It all started before the exam period… The lilacs were blooming then…”

In your hands is not just “Afanasij’s Main Mistake” by Juhaśka Kalada, but the heated adventures of the irrevocably wasted 2000s, where meta-fiction weaves together carefree student life, resort Crimea, rivers of beer, and gigabytes of love in its various manifestations — though this love is, in all probability, merely a mirage. The author boldly transforms warm memories into cold steel, a form of revenge, and the characters into Voodoo dolls.

“Juhaśka Kalada’s heroines are hyper-emotional individuals for whom creativity is a way of blowing off steam, a way of channeling excess energy into a socially acceptable direction. Fantasizing on paper is for them like the bloodletting once practiced by doctors, and this ‘work-letting’ saves the book’s heroines from life while simultaneously returning them to it” – read more.