Забудь-річка

By a quirk of fate, three young men go to war under a single name, Stepan Shahuta: a Komsomol member who ends up in the Galicia Division, the son of an officer of the Ukrainian People's Republic who serves in the Red Army, and a Polish soldier who fights in the Ukrainian Insurgent Army. Many years later, two of their descendants meet by chance and fall in love. Together they start a family investigation into the three destinies, which have become so entangled that they read as a single threefold fate: that of a Ukrainian in the Second World War. The title comes from an old pagan image, the river of forgetting that separates the living from the dead and that, the book suggests, flows between the generations of every Ukrainian family.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

541 pages in the original

Genres

Historical, War, Love (assigned by AI)

Set in

Ukraine

First published

2016 by Нора-Друк

Author's age

Dmytro Kapranov 49, Vitalii Kapranov 49 when first published

ISBN

9789668659775 (original)