Sons of the soil
By: Illia Kiriak.
Publisher: St. Andrew's College in Winnipeg
Published: 1983
Place of publication: Winnipeg, Man., Canada
Language: eng
Number of pages: 303
Subjects: Ukrainians -- Canada -- Fiction; Alberta -- Fiction
First sentence: Hrehory   Workun   sat  on   the   threshold   of  his   hut, warming his old bones in the heat of the spring sun. He was clad in a white old-style belted shirt and white pants.    His shoulders were covered with an overcoat. Dressed this way, sitting there in listless passivity, he showed no pleasure in the blessed warmth.    On the contrary his grey bushy brows, which drooped like a thatch over his deep-sunken eyes, his ashy, bristling moustache which overhung and covered his toothless mouth, his long, unshaven face—these created the illusion of a skeleton which by some miracle had risen from the grave, dressed itself, and sat down on the threshold to enjoy the sun.
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