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The writer created a rather eccentric picture of future where information intoxication of human brain coexists with total ecological collapse. Though people have successfully adapted to chemical pollution, they cannot get used and thus revolt against the news dictate. The novel characters leap from future into the they find their future escaping from megalopolis to one of the numerous radiation areas once declared as unlivable. Feral area appears to be an ecological oasis, where in exuberance of vegetation, without money and information people recover the primal feeling of genesis. Novel Miseria is a recipe of happiness after the Apocalypse. The best literary debut of 2007 (Book of the Year, Ukrainian Writers Union diploma). TARAS ANTYPOVYCH - The writer, journalist, and the author of two books. His first novel Miseria was acknowledged as Ukraine's best literary debut of the year by the National Writers Union. The author perfects his unique style which is a mixture of phantasmagoria and actuality, laconism and metaphorical story. Taras Antypovych was born in 1978 in Poltava. He graduated from Ivan Franko Lviv National University (journalism). At present, he lives in Kyiv. He is married, has two daughters. In Ukrainian -- try free sample first to be sure that you can read Cyrillic.