WRETCHED LAND describes the passionate love, intense suffering and the miraculous survival of one family who lived in Ukraine through the hardships of World War One, the Civil War and World War Two including the famines of 1921, 1932-33 and 1947, and the cruel, Stalinist era. The story is fictional, interwoven into the fabric of Ukrainian history.
The love between Dmytro, an impoverished aristocrat turned farmer, and Khrystina, daughter of a wealthy landowner, carries their family through the...
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