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One of the joys of reading is coming across a novel in which the author's voice is so perfectly wedded to an important subject that the blending becomes art. Such a novel is Irene Zabytko's THE SKY UNWASHED, wherein the inexplicable events of the larger world are broken down into the small... read more

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In the village of Starylis, during the less politically oppressive days of the Gorbachev era in the Soviet Union, the citizens working on the kolhosp, the collective farm, felt themselves to be more prosperous than their counterparts in the cities of Ukraine.

Authors & Contributors

  1. Irene Zabytko (Author)

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  1. contemporary fiction
  2. ukrainian 
 

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