Book Maria + Zhovtyi kniaz (set of 2 books)
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Ulas Samchuk (1905-1987) was a Ukrainian writer, journalist, and publicist whose legacy is vast and diverse. He wrote not only about his native Volyn and Zakarpattia, but also about Greater Ukraine and the Ukrainian emigration, and is considered a "chronicler of the Ukrainian space." Samchuk was deliberately silenced in Soviet times. It was only in the independent Ukrainian state that the writer's works began to be published in his homeland . Through the events in the life of Mariia, her relatives, and fellow countrymen over several decades-from the pre-revolutionary period to the Bolshevik reforms of the 1930s and the genocide of the Ukrainian peasantry-the author artistically comprehends the tragedy of one family within the tragedy of the entire Ukrainian nation and elevates the image of the peasant woman Mariia to a symbol of the whole of Ukraine.
The works of Vasyl Barka (real name - Vasyl Konstantinovych Ocheret, 1908-2003), a talented writer and poet, a representative of the Ukrainian diaspora in the United States of America, remained unknown in our country for many years.
The novel The Yellow Prince (1958-1961) is the first major prose work in Ukrainian literature to deal with the national tragedy of Ukraine, the terrible famine of 1932-1933, which claimed the lives of millions of people. The writer creates a symbolic image of the Yellow Prince, a demon of evil who brings with him only destruction, devastation, suffering and death. This allegorical image turns into an object of hatred not only for ordinary people, but also for the reader himself.