Le Coquelicot

Year of publication: 2020

Number of pages: 304

Publisher: 21-Publishers

A young man belonging to a privileged Soviet-era elite family, yet with Western education and lifestyle, lives through his personal tragedy. He is the reason why the love of his life is in coma. Meanwhile his country, Ukraine, immerses into dark waters of war, back in 2014. Being torn apart between an acute depression, as he does not believe in the recovery of his love and the desire to leave the country to start a new life abroad, he is being convinced by his childhood friend, another son of nomenclature parents, to join a high-rank civil service in the Administration of the President. This new venture, paired with new relations, brings even more challenges into a distressed life.

Delirious memories from the past with his true love surface more and more often as he navigates via bureaucratic traps and human losses of war. His best friend appears to be a high-ranking money-launderer who wants the protagonist to replace him in this role. His new girlfriend is a Russian spy as her mother stays on the occupied territory.

Eventually, this brings to life a vibrant need to finally take the responsibility for his life, his choices and to cut off with family trauma caused by his mother and brother in order to help at least someone, if not himself as he was informed by mistake that his true love died. He decides to fulfil the dream of another friend killed in the war and to open the café Le Coquelicot together with his widow. When he seems to find the purpose in his life, he gets to know that the love of his life is alive and regained conciseness, but atthis very moment, he gets into the car accident, similar to the one she had. In the last scene, the protagonist opens his eyes and sees Veronica who speaks to him, but it is not known whether it is a reality or again oneof his deliriums or life after death.

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