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| Author | Palkich L. |
| Title | Uravnenie Gopaka. Roman o vojne bez vojny |
| Description | Lesha Palkich is a Ukrainian Russian-language writer, and his novel The Hopak Equation moves the subject of war into the space of parable. At the centre stands Hugo Hopak, a man from a southern town whose young son is gravely ill. He needs money for an operation, and for that reason he enters service on the “liberated territories,” though no heroic faith drives him there. The war remains mostly offstage, but its pressure is present in every choice, in every exchange, and in every step he takes.
The invented world creates distance, though many details remain sharply recognisable. Little by little, the novel shows how a person grows used to violence, to the suffering of others, and to his own moral concessions. Its deepest concern lies in the hero’s inner change. What unfolds here is a story about the temptation of self-justification and about the quiet way war alters the limits of what a person can accept. |
| Year | 2025 |
| Publisher | Vidim books |
| Pages | 328 |
| Cover | Paperback |
| ISBN | 978-80-690962-0-2 |