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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 of 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.