To Galicia (in Ukrainian)

In this work, the author dismantles the Austrian “sugar-coated” myth of the former crownland of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. His imagined journey takes the reader through Eastern Galicia — a landscape marked by hardship and poverty, where oil barons and miracle-working rabbis grotesquely coexist with impoverished Jewish shtetls. It is a region where Ruthenians, Poles, Romanians, Hutsuls, Armenians, Karaites, Germans, and Roma barely survive in a corrupt and illiterate land, and yet one where a vibrant multilingual cultural mosaic flourishes and beautiful literature is created.