Sweet Darusya by Maria Matios
'To my mind Maria Matios's Sweet Darusya is the best contemporary Ukrainian novel written since Ukrainian Independence in 1991. It reveals a family saga that is much more dynamic than classical sagas and at the same time is much more touching and engaging. It is an emotional history of Ukraine with a very well researched and vivid historical background that gives the reader the opportunity to understand not only the characters and their drama, but the entire drama of the country/countries in which they lived without leaving their village.' -Andrei Kurkov 'Maria Matios with her novel Sweet Darusya has boldly and strongly tossed political caution and public taboos to the wind--and at her own risk has taken us on a cruel journey into our bloody, and no less cruel, historical hell, into the abyss, where it is terrifying to peer.' -Pavlo Zahrebelny 'Ecstatic reactions, many awards, and the large number of readers are tied to its vivid, rich, but almost never sweet language, thanks to which the old world of a Ukrainian village blooms and begins a new life.' -Uli Hufen, Westdeutscher Rundfunk / GermanyMaria Matios (Марія Матіос; Матіос; Мат&# She was born in Roztoky, a village in the Bukovina region, and now lives in Kyiv. She wrote 12 collections of fiction and poetry, including the novel Sweet Darusia (2003) and the story collections The Short Life (2001) and Nation (2002). Russian, Polish, English, Serbian, and Belorussian have all been translated into her written works. When she was fifteen years old, her first poetry were published.
Her first piece of literature was published in Kyiv Magazine in 1992. Maria Matios' works are based on her family's unique experiences, which date back to 1790. She won the Taras Shevchenko National Prize in 2005 (for her novel Sweet Darusia) and the Book of the Year honor in 2004. Matios was re-elected as a deputy in the Ukrainian parliament in the 2014 election.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781947980938 |
| ISBN 10 | 1947980939 |
| Title | Sweet Darusya |
| Author | Maria Matios |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Spuyten Duyvil |
| Year published | 2019-01-18 |
| Number of pages | 224 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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