Микольцьове щастя

Mykoltsio, in the prime of his life and the envy of the village girls, dreams of prosperity, respect and the status of a real master of the farm. The story opens in an almost pastoral village in western Ukraine where people still remember Austria, and where Mykoltsio marries Teklia, a rich farmer's daughter he does not love, largely for the horses in her dowry. But the year is 1939, and his personal dramas, and those of his family, unfold against the coming of Soviet power, total collectivisation and the underground struggle of the UPA against two occupying regimes. Horses run through the whole book as a symbol of status and of loss. It is a novel about ordinary people who lived, searched, found and lost, until they understood that perhaps that was their happiness.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Genres

Historical, Family (assigned by AI)

Set in

Ukraine

First published

2025 by Видавництво Юлії Сливки

ISBN

9786178522032 (original)