Volodymyr Kylynych "Chernivtsi for our own" (Повiсть)

Volodymyr Kylynych's new book tells about Chernivtsi through the prism of personal stories and dialogues of Chernivtsi residents, revealing the peculiar flavor, authenticity of the city, its inhabitants, and the specifics of their communication. Often resorting to a more or less distant retrospective, the author focuses on those details of urban life and space that are usually overlooked, collects and builds a holistic picture of Chernivtsi from the details, thus emphasizing and actualizing the memory of the city and its citizens. The writer demonstrates that the history of the city is each of its stages, and the city today is the result of long processes, it is on the surface of a kind of diachronic pyramid.
A fascinating melodramatic detective story, the author's style, with its inherent humor and irony, will not leave readers indifferent. Each character (whether it is a creature, a building, a street) plays a specific role, which creates a sense of urban space as one big stage where everyone and everything is interconnected, where everything is in a cause-and-effect relationship.