Століття Якова

The life of a Polissia peasant who in his hundred years outlives five states: the Russian Empire, the Ukrainian People's Republic, Poland, Hitler's Germany and Stalin's Soviet Union. The story runs on three levels: the last year of his first century in the village of Zahorany, the time five years earlier when he saved Olenka, a young drug addict who wandered into his village, and almost the whole twentieth century. There is childhood love, the abduction of a sweetheart promised to another, service in the Polish army, love for a Polish noblewoman, war with the Germans, captivity and war again, and the Ukrainian-Polish massacres. Yakiv waits for Olenka's letter and for his son Artem.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

240 pages in the original

Genres

Historical, Family, War (assigned by AI)

Set in

Ukraine, 20th century

First published

2010 by Клуб сімейного дозвілля

Author's age

60 when first published

ISBN

9789661410076 (original)

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