HYMN OF THE DEMOCRATIC YOUTH

Immerse yourself in six lyrical stories that reveal the cruel and sometimes funny reality of post-Soviet Ukraine. Meet the heroes who, like the heroes of a new order, face the challenges of everyday life with passion and eccentricity. They don't waste time on geopolitical considerations, but focus on finding their place in a dynamically changing world.

• Lively heroes who are not afraid of challenges
• Eccentric characters that add color to the gray reality
• Tough people who don't give up
• Stories about love, corporations and trade unions
• Surreal image of the new Ukraine
• Rebellious spirit that does not let you forget about ideals
• Damn attractive reading that captivates from the first page

Hymn of the Democratic Youth is not just a collection of short stories, but above all a procession of outsiders who have the opportunity to taste capitalism for the first time. It is a surreal, rebellious and damn attractive journey through the depths of the human soul, in which every reader will find a piece of themselves. Igor Stokfiszewski aptly notes that it is a song about the boom in the market of the absurd and the bust on the stock exchange of ideas. Zhadan brings to life an army of heroes of a new order, creating a modest catalog of the main characters of a song sung to the rhythm of the clatter of forty wagons of drugs that do not move from the spot.

Zhadan inspects the inventory of liberal democracy like junk in an attic shat on by pigeons. He selects new truths from it and then mixes them in a test tube of lyrical grotesque, distilling the falsehoods of a new, better ideology. It's delicious, hilarious, terrifying. A book that makes you think, and at the same time entertains and moves. It is a must-read for anyone who wants to understand modern Ukraine and its inhabitants.

Czarne Publishing House, known for publishing ambitious non-fiction and fiction, is giving readers another gem. Hymn of the Democratic Youth is a book that will remain in your memory for a long time and encourage you to reflect on the state of the modern world. It is a reading that leaves no one indifferent and forces you to ask difficult questions.

Technical parameters: Pages: 176, Format: 196x126 mm, Year of publication: 2022, Cover: paperback.