This is a book about primal love between Ivanko and Marichka — a love that grew with them despite the blood feud between their families. It’s also a story about betrayal and free love, about the pain of loss and the strength of emotion, about death and existential loneliness. At the same time, it’s about Hutsul vitality and the art of enduring.
Our edition is unique — it preserves the language of the last lifetime publication from 1913.
The illustrations were created by Daria Lutsyshyna, who previously designed the visuals for Grandfather Ivanchyk and The Opryshky. The foreword was written by literary scholar and researcher of the “Hutsul text” — Oleksandra Saliy.
