The Whisperer
Sheptukha
Author: Tamara Duda (Tamara Horikha-Zernya)
Illustrations: —
For readers: Adults
Language: Ukrainian
Publisher / Series: Bilka
Year of publication: 2025
Edition type: Hardcover
Number of pages: 368
Dimensions: 140 × 210 mm
Weight: 610 g
ISBN: 978-617-7792-51-1
Description:
“Olha Petriivna Kryvenko, known as Perwotsvit on her mother’s side, tries to patch together her marriage — but it doesn’t hold. The more respectable and dignified the outward appearance, the more palpable the emptiness behind the scenes. Loneliness, fear of aging, and truths too heavy to hide any longer … none of this will end well.
The protagonist is not a young girl who can simply run away — she is a respectable translator with a steady clientele and a professional reputation. Still, she fled … to her grandmother’s old hut at the edge of the world, intent on a quiet, solitary life to sort herself out and reflect.
But this quiet refuge is far from simple. Honor and the uncanny, the living and the dead, men and women, violence and powerlessness, love and betrayal — all blend at this borderland.
The grandmother, once believed to have been ‘exorcised,’ left behind a formidable reputation that must be lived up to. Old sins and crimes refuse to remain quiet and surface in search of vengeance and justice. And then the war began.” Bilka
