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The family saga in the novels &Authority is Almost Never the Other Way Round» by the prominent Ukrainian writer Maria Matios is not inferior to her famous &Sweet Darusya» in terms of writing skills and depth of presentation.

«It is not the time that matters, but the person in the circumstances of the time» — the writer reveals this thesis through the dramatic story of several Hutsul families during the First World War. Great passions of ordinary people, a light haze of mysticism, eternal dilemmas of Love and Hate, Sin and Redemption, a multi-tiered plot...

Each character in this extraordinary drama has an indisputable alibi, unchallenged truth and their own courts of honour. This means that they have the right to act in ways that no logic or written law can foresee. The laws of honour are in conflict with the laws of the heart, because it has been so for centuries, and it is almost never the other way round.