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Ukraine has had a difficult path at all times and epochs. The twentieth century was no exception; on the contrary, it seems to have been the most difficult period for Ukrainians. On the pages of his new novel The Price of Slavery. The Return sincerely and frankly tells about the fate of his family. raising such important issues for everyone as finding oneself, defining one's national identity, returning to the roots.

The author, who grew up in the Far East and the Amur region, returns to the homeland of his great-grandfathers and Kyiv to build a future here. However, changes await not only him - the USSR has been living out its last decades, sucking the last of the juice from the Soviet republics. At the turn of the century, fate also tests the young man, throwing him far from his native land again.

A foreign country, service in the Soviet army, a test of humanity and dignity, and, as the final and especially emotional chord, the tragedy at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant and the fight against the «peaceful» atom in the ranks of liquidators. Sometimes the road to the most precious is too thorny and takes centuries and thousands of kilometres. The main thing in the cycle of life is to feel where your roots are, to preserve this knowledge and pass it on to your children so that they never have to pay the terrible price of slavery.