Yuriy Tarnawsky

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  • Bibliography:
    11 Books
  • First Book:
    January 1978
  • Latest Book:
    February 2019
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Book List in Order: 11 titles

  • Meningitis

  • Meningitis; A Work of Fiction

  • Three Blondes & Death

    Based on a complex mathematical scheme that the author, a computer scientist and linguist, developed as a substitute for the traditional architecture of a novel, and written in a deliberately sparse and structured syntax that ruthlessly compartmental...

  • Like Blood in Water: Five Mininovels

    A surrealist account of the creative and descriptive arts.In these five surrealist collages, waking life continually gives way before the onslaught of dreams. Yuriy Tarnawsky has condensed the vastness of scope typical of novels into shorter fragment...

  • Short Tails

    A body gradually shrinks to an eye that sees its own end. A man screams with pain as if singing an Indian raga to entertain others for a pittance. Another man tries to force his body to adapt the shape of a cube because of the cleverly witty name his...

  • The Future of Giraffes

    Fiction. The themes of alienation, abandonment, and fear of death, developed in LIKE BLOOD IN WATER, the first book of The Placebo Effect Trilogy, are picked up in the second book, THE FUTURE OF GIRAFFES, which is devoted to the topic of childhood. A...

  • Like Blood in Water

    Fiction. The themes of alienation, abandonment, and fear of death that permeate THE FUTURE OF GIRAFFES and THE VIEW OF DELFT, second and third books of The Placebo Effect Trilogy, are originally brought up in the first book, LIKE BLOOD IN WATER. A ma...

  • View of Delft

    Fiction. The themes of alienation, abandonment, and fear of death, developed in LIKE BLOOD IN WATER and elaborated in THE FUTURE OF GIRAFFES, the first and second books of The Placebo Effect Trilogy, are picked up in the third book, VIEW OF DELFT, an...

  • Crocodile Smiles

    "In case you have missed the voice of the rich, courageous, adventurous fiction writing of Yuriy Tarnawsky, this collection will be a great introduction. You will experience his unique ability to meld wicked humor and looming gravitas.One of the grea...



  • The Iguanas of Heat

    Fiction. A woman possessed by an inexplicable hatred for her husband plans his death on their forthcoming trip to Mexico. It is unwittingly facilitated by a young girl with whom the husband falls in love.THE IGUANAS OF HEAT is an altogether different...

  • Warm Arctic Nights

    By turns reminiscent of Zweig’s The World of Yesterday and Kosinsky’s The Painted Bird, Yuriy Tarnawsky’s Warm Arctic Nights is a swift and deeply engrossing fictive memoir of an idyllic childhood whose martial and masculine tenets presage an o...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Yuriy Tarnawsky has published 11 books.

Yuriy Tarnawsky does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Warm Arctic Nights, was published in February 2019.

The first book by Yuriy Tarnawsky, Meningitis; A Work of Fiction, was published in January 1978.

No. Yuriy Tarnawsky does not write books in series.
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