Breath of the storm

The reader gets acquainted with the second part of Ivan Melezh’s “Poleska Chronicle”, where he will meet familiar characters – Vasyl Dziatla, Anna Chernushka, Khalimon and Yavhim Glushak, “Bolshevik with a human face” Opeyk.

There are also new ones – the staunch collectivizer of Bashlykov, the poet Ales Mayova. The writer continues to develop a narrative flow, which can be called the saga of Paulesse and compared with the works of Galsworthy, Faulkner, García Márquez, which went from regional to universal. The center of the world created by Melezh still remains Kurani, where houses stood on the island where Vasyl and Anna fell in love. And… they continue to love, in spite of everything – neither the Glushakovs, nor the village morality, nor collectivization. But Vasyl does not leave the dream of the promised land, the one near the brickyard…