The Year of the Hornet. Rik Shershnya
Author: Vasyl Shkliar
Illustrations: —
For readers: Adults
Language: Ukrainian
Publisher / Series: KSD
Year of publication: 2025
Edition type: Hardcover
Number of pages: 496
Dimensions: 13,5 × 20,5 cm
Weight: 490 g
ISBN: 978-617-15-1648-9
Description:
"A mysterious stranger calls the writer with a proposal to show him a lost treasure cave, where Hetman Mazepa and Swedish King Charles XII once met. Intrigued, the author sets off on a journey and eventually discovers an incredible treasure: a contemporary partisan hands him an old manuscript containing his grandfather’s memories of the uprising against the Moscow occupiers in the 1920s.
Past and present intertwine in a mystical tangle, where we witness the reincarnation of those insurgents in their grandchildren and great-grandchildren. Yet, as always in Vasyl Shkliar’s novels, it is real mysticism, in which even behind the secrets of passionate love lies a profound truth that cannot be invented.“ KSD
