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• The novel is a finalist of the Coronation of the Word
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• Based on real events

Makar and his wife Vira are used to working tirelessly. They taught their daughters the same. That is why they lived in prosperity, because they earned it with sweat and blood. And then came collectivisation. Everything became a collective farm. Dissenting kulaks who didn't want to give up their property were sent to hard labour. This is what happened to Makar. His wife Vira, her children, and other countrymen were taken to the Urals and left in the middle of the forest with a dozen axes and several packs of matches. The guards would later return for the survivors. They will take the men to a logging site. They will take everything again.

This is a dramatic and true story of the author's family. His family survived dekulakisation and famine, exile and hard labour, war and post-war ruin. Like hundreds of other people who were tortured and crippled by the "benefits" of Soviet rule. Everything was taken away from them: home, family, peace, the right to control their own destiny. But where you are deprived of everything, there is only one desire - to survive. No matter what. And to live. Despite everything.