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On a short trip through the colourful Hutsul region, Yaroslava has no idea where and to whom this journey will eventually lead. As she unwinds the tangled web of her own feelings, Yarka unexpectedly stumbles upon a trace of a family secret that has long piqued her curiosity. In her half-detective, half-mystical search, the girl discovers the karmic connection between generations, and learns with her whole being the memory of blood invisibly encoded in each of us. This story of human passions, exquisitely written by Anna Bahriana, will appeal to true literary gourmets.

In 2008, the manuscript of the novel The Etymology of Blood (originally titled According to Gabriel or Contrary to Prejudice) won three prestigious awards at once: "Coronation of the Word" (III place), "Smoloskyp" (II place), and was also awarded the O. Honchar International Ukrainian-German Prize. O. Honchar International Ukrainian-German Prize. In the same year, it was published by the Kyiv publishing house &Fakt».