North of the border | Tatiana Ruban

For teenagers.

Nata dreams of drawing, but her mother insists on making her a gymnast. Lali tries to take revenge on her father for divorcing her mother and forming a new family. Sergo takes care of the family after his father joins the partisans to defend his native country from the enemy. Three teenagers, three stories, three destinies that intersect at the border, where there should be no border, established after the "five-day war" of 2008 - when arbitrary Russian aggressors appeared in the small Georgian town where our heroes meet-" peacekeepers"...

A book for teenagers and adults who appreciate deep, thoughtful, relevant modern prose with a bright plot that captivates from the first breath, and "living" characters in whom teenagers can easily identify themselves, and in their worries, problems and joys - their own.

The novel "North of the border" is a laureate of the first prize of the Literary Competition of the publishing house "Nash Format" for children's writers. This is one of the first books in modern Ukrainian literature intended for teenagers, in which the topic of war, which is unfortunately very relevant for us, is described with deep feeling, emotion and talent.

Tatiana Ruban is a writer, born on April 1, 1982, lives in Poltava. She is a history and law teacher by education. He is interested in psychology, Ukrainian culture and the animated world of Hayao Miyazaki. The manuscript of the book "North of the Border" won the "Young Coronation of Words" competition (2019) in the "Novels" category, as well as in the competition of the Ukrainian Children's Book Space "BaraBooka" in the "Prose for Youth" category.