Review: Inspiring and Touching
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 11 2, 2013
This book of 17 original stories deals with dreams and losses, pride and forgiveness, fear and sacrifice, misery and hope. Eight of the stories were first published in the author's prize-winning 2007 book, íè óñò ("Chronicles of a Desert"), in the original Ukrainian."The road of life can only reveal itself as it is traveled; each turn in the road reveals a surprise. Man's future is hidden." AnonymousNatalia Dobzhanskas words speak to these times, to times of pain and times of love, and an overweening hope for redemption. Her words are filled with the horror and beauty and loss of her Ukranian homeland. Many of these stories are very moving. The writing is excellent and the translation from Ukrainian superb.Inspiring and touching words.