Tento ukrajinský autor skúma hlbiny ľudskej skúsenosti prostredníctvom poézie a prózy. Jeho diela sa často zaoberajú témami identity a migrácie, odrážajúc jeho vlastné skúsenosti so životom v Donecku a následným presunom do Kyjeva. Autorova schopnosť vykresliť komplexné emócie a myšlienky mu dáva jedinečný hlas v súčasnej literatúre. Jeho štýl sa vyznačuje prenikavou introspekciou a citlivým pozorovaním sveta.
Mondegreen tells the story of a refugee from Ukraine's Donbas region who has escaped to Kyiv at the onset of the Ukrainian-Russian war. Written in beautiful, experimental style, the novel shows how people-and cities-are capable of radical transformation and how this, in turn, affects their interpersonal relations and cultural identification.
In The Length of Days, featuring a wild cast of characters, Rafeyenko combines poetry and wicked humor with elements of magical realism. The novel is set in 2014, mostly in the composite Donbas city of Z—an uncanny foretelling of what this letter has come to symbolize since February 2022, when Russia launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine.