Author: Oleksandr Homeniuk
Publisher: Залізний тато
Number of Pages: 174
Cover: Hardcover
Reader Age: Adult
Year of Publication: 2024
This is a diary-book about a year in the life of a military doctor who, together with his comrades, saved hundreds of wounded Ukrainian soldiers, and at the same time a father’s story to his son, whom he did not see throughout that period.
"Here is where I was, my son, while you grew up without me. Here is what I did, my son, when I did not take you to kindergarten, when I did not play with you, and when I did not embrace you and your mother. Look, here I examine the body of our fallen ‘boy,’ and now I will dress the wound of a living Cossack. And to another I am forced to amputate a leg, and then they will bring more, those who took up arms for your future and the future of millions of Ukrainians."
It is a first-hand account from the “Simon of Cyrene,” who helps the Ukrainian soldier carry the cross—bearing hundreds of crosses of wounded Ukrainian fighters on the path to freedom and the resurrection of Ukraine and its people.
It is also a reflection on love and freedom amid daily routines filled with suffering and valor, wounds, amputations, the bodies of “our boys,” and the pain of still-living comrades—a daily stream from the very heart of war.
