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Book 1. Pain and Anger. Book 1

In his novel Pain and Anger, Anatolii Dimarov continues the epic story of the daily routine of the inhabitants of the Poltava village of Tarasivka, which he began in And There Will Be People. It seemed to them that the worst had passed - forced collectivisation, the Holodomor, mass repression. But soon the darkest hour came - the war years, and one inhuman order was replaced by an equally cruel one. How will the Tarasivtsi behave, whose side will they take?

The author, as usual, does not prescribe any civic position, deliberately avoiding direct characterisation of the characters. Their actions, thoughts, and aspirations speak for them. "I wrote about life. That's all," Anatolii Dimarov emphasised. And the reader must draw his own conclusions. "Pain and Anger" did not escape the censor's hand, ruthless cuts. But even in a truncated version, it was awarded the Shevchenko Prize."< /p>

Folio Publishing House is reissuing the novel, fully restored by the author. Pain and anger. Book 2. Black Raven. The Captain's Son

The book contains the final part of the novel Pain and Anger, which tells the tragic story of the inhabitants of the Poltava village of Tarasivka. They were not spared the millstones of forced collectivisation, famine, repression, and the darkest hour of the war . These works have a difficult fate: they were either not published - for example, The Black Raven lay in the writer's desk for twenty years and was first published in English in Australia - or were generously mutilated by the censor's hand. Moreover, in order to finally see the light of day, even in this form, the author had to distort the text with ideological nonsense.

"That's why I had to restore this story, restoring the episodes that were mercilessly cut out and breathed truth," Anatolii Dimarov wrote in the preface to The Captain's Son.

Folio Publishing House is reissuing the works that the author has completely restored.

Book 3. And there will be people

The prophetic words of the great Taras that "there will be no enemy on the renewed land, no adversary, but a son, and a mother, and people on the earth" became Anatolii Dimarov's unshakable conviction: he took the last line of this statement as the title of one of his best works. Even though it deals with the most tragic pages of the life of the Ukrainian peasantry during the period of collectivisation and the Holodomor, even though our independence was still many decades away. The fact is that when he started writing the novel in the early 1960s, the writer had already shed the deception of Sovietism. Instead, she clung tightly to her narrative - a third of the work was cut by the censors. Today, this true story has turned a new page in her life story: Folio Publishing House is reissuing it without notes, and the recent 12-episode film adaptation of the novel has been recognised as the country's first historical family saga.