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Book 1. The Night Traveller

"The Night Traveller" is a continuation of "The Eye of the World", the first teenage novel about the UPA in Ukrainian literature, written on the basis of real events by one of the most significant Ukrainian writers Halyna Pahutyak.

The end of 1946. It is winter. The village of Zalokot in the Carpathians, where Ilko, a teenager and UPA liaison officer, lives. When you have to travel alone, it's better to do it at night, because it's safer, and you have the Eye of the World diamond, a pistol, and a grenade to protect you from ghosts and the occupying enemy. It doesn't matter that the boy is not even fifteen yet - he has long since stepped onto the warpath and there is no turning back. If there is no one left to fight for Ukraine, children will do it - this is the main motif of the second book about the young UPA liaison officer, already known to Ukrainian readers from the novel The Eye of the World. In this school of life, in this hopeless struggle against the Moscow occupier, he acts as his heart tells him, and that is why he is first and foremost a hero, not a victim.

Book 2. The Eye of the World

The first teenage novel in Ukrainian literature about the UPA, written on the basis of real events by one of the most prominent Ukrainian writers Halyna Pahutyak.

Autumn 1946. The village of Zalokot in the Carpathians, where Ilko, a 14-year-old teenager and UPA liaison officer, lives. He has two dreams: to kill the NKVED villain Major Zhbanov and to see the largest diamond, the Eye of the World, hidden on Mount Berdi, which is described in an old book. Every day for this village boy is a quest in which he has to make the right choice: life or death, freedom or slavery, humanity or indifference, compromise or integrity. And in this school of life, in this hopeless struggle against the Moscow occupier, he does what his heart tells him to do, and that is why he is first and foremost a hero, not a victim.