The Thickets by Lobodowski, Józef;

Rövid leírás:

The Thickets is the first volume of Polish poet and novelist Józef Lobodowski’s Ukrainian Trilogy, written between 1955 and 1960. Set primarily in Russia’s Kuban region, the novel unfolds against a rich backdrop where Ukrainians, Russians, and Cossacks live alongside Tatars, Circassians, and waves of other peoples under Tsarist rule.

Hosszú leírás:

The Thickets is the first volume of Polish poet and novelist Józef Łobodowski’s Ukrainian Trilogy, written between 1955 and 1960. Set primarily in Russia’s Kuban region, the novel unfolds against a rich backdrop where Ukrainians, Russians, and Cossacks live alongside Tatars, Circassians, and waves of other peoples under Tsarist rule—among them Armenians and Poles. From this world emerges Staś (Stanisław), a young Pole and the central figure of the trilogy.

In The Thickets, Łobodowski paints a stark, unforgettable portrait of the turmoil that engulfed the former Russian Empire after the fall of the Tsar and Kerensky’s government. For Staś, once a student at a classical gymnasium, survival now means peddling contraband on the black market. Through his eyes, the reader is plunged into the chaos of war, revolution, and occupation—rendered with visceral power and human urgency.

Tartalomjegyzék:

Polak-Katolik, and Unapologetically So:Józef Łobodowski’s The Thickets  Chapter One  Chapter Two  Chapter Three  Chapter Four  Chapter Five  Chapter Six  Chapter Seven  Chapter Eight  Chapter Nine  Chapter Ten  Chapter Eleven  Chapter Twelve  Chapter Thirteen  Chapter Fourteen  Chapter Fifteen  Chapter Sixteen  Chapter Seventeen  Chapter Eighteen  Chapter Nineteen  Chapter Twenty  Chapter Twenty-One  Chapter Twenty-Two  Chapter Twenty-Three  Chapter Twenty-Four  Chapter Twenty-Five  Chapter Twenty-Six  Chapter Twenty-Seven  Chapter Twenty-Eight