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“Conditions don't matter” by Lilyana D. Chuk is a collection of short fiction that offers a very unusual experience for Ukrainian readers. At first glance, the texts in this book differ in absolutely everything: characters, themes, situations. But all of them are permeated with a thread of alienation and loneliness. From a businesswoman who disappears in cheap bars in the evenings to a stalker who cannot let go of his ex-girlfriend, each character in the collection is superfluous in his environment and copes in his own way.
Lilyana D. Chuk's prose can be compared to a set of puzzles that line by line fits together at the end of each work, and the brevity of her presentation guarantees the absence of unnecessary details, ensuring that all the necessary ones are present.