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Lyudmyla Taran. Yablunya. (The Apple Tree)

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Lyudmyla Taran. Yablunya. (The Apple Tree)
"The Apple Tree" is a dialog book, where women well-known in Ukraine and abroad – mothers and daughters – speak about important moments, recall significant people and events that left a trace in their life. These are intriguing stories that strikingly intersect, just as fates of the mothers themselves: the personal as a testimony of the epoch.
Oksana Zabuzhko, Natalka Bilotserkivets, Sofia Maydanska, Bohdana Pavlychko, and Marjana Savka speak about the dearest ones, who have significantly influenced their lives and creative work."
In Ukrainian
.
Type of the edition: hard cover
Format: 166x215 mm
Number of pages: 176
Publisher: Vydavnytstvo Staroho Leva, Lviv
Contents
:

- Derevo (vstupne slovo)

1:

- Nadia Zabuzhko (Obzhyrko): don‘ku zakhyshchala na rivni TsK

- Oksana Zabuzhko: "Mama bula vynjatkovoju ljudynoju"

2:

- Anastasia Lysyvets: "Ne pole pereyty..."

- Natalka Bilotserkivets: "Vid mamy – bazovi moral‘na nastanovy"

3:

- Maria Maydanska. Odarka-Marija

- Sofia Maydanska: "Mama – jak prekrasna dyryhentka"

4:

- Strila Solomiji Pavlychko

- Bohdana Pavlychko: "Mama vykhovala mene indyvidualistkoju"

5:

- Shypshynove namysto Iryny Savky

- Marjana Savka: "Mama pokladala na mene velyki nadiji i bulo by prykro ne vypravdaty jiji spodivan‘"

Publisher: Staryi Lev
Catalogue number: ISBN 9786176797104
Year: 2019

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