{"product_id":"samchuk-ulas-volyn-ch-1-toronto-1952","title":"Samchuk Ulas. Volyn: Where the River Flows. Part 1. Toronto, 1952","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e“Every ray of sunshine, the breath of every leaf… all of it is united in a mother’s warm gaze!”\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eUlas Samchuk. Where the River Flows. Part One [of the novel “Volyn,” in three parts]. — Third edition.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eToronto: [publisher unknown], 1952. — 311 pp.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOriginal publisher’s softcover in cream paper: the front cover features a woodcut-style composition printed in brown ink, showing a peasant with an axe among stumps in a clear-cut forest, with the monogram “M. L.”; the author’s name and title are in decorative lettering. The price of $2.75 is printed in red on the back cover. The front cover is clean; the back cover is darkened and stained throughout, with darkened edges. The binding is firm, the paper has a slight natural tint, and the text is clean. The title page bears a blue stamp: “Library of Master of Historical Sciences A. Chemerynsky.” Condition: good.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLifetime edition. The book has historical and cultural value and is of collector’s interest.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eINFORMATION\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe cover illustrates the novel’s opening sentence: “Father is clearing stumps in the forest clear-cut” — this is Matvii Dovbenko, who cleared five acres of forest by hand to make room for a field. The first part of the trilogy “Volyn” follows the Dovbenko family — Matvii, Nastia, and their sons Vasyl, Volodka, and Khvedot — through a Volyn village in the early 20th century. At the center is little Volodka, who longs for books and school and sets out along the riverbank with his brother to find out where it flows. Seventeen chapters — from “The Great March” to “Such a Land”; the second part is titled “War and Revolution,” and the third, “Father and Son.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eUlas Samchuk (1905–1987) was a prose writer and journalist born in Dermań, in Volyn. He wrote “Volyn” in exile in Prague; the first part was published in Lviv in 1932. During the war, he edited the Rivne newspaper “Volyn,” and after the war, he headed the Ukrainian Artistic Movement in Germany. In 1948, he moved to Canada and lived in Toronto until his death.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis Toronto edition, identified on the title page as the third, was published four years after the author moved to Canada. On the verso of the title page is the dedication: “To the one who first read this book, who experienced it and loved it — Maria Zots.” In the Ukrainian Soviet Republic, Samchuk was a banned author, and “Volyn” was not published in Ukraine until the early 1990s; before that, the novel was available only in diaspora editions.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"archivevam","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":64589863518579,"sku":"SKU-00681","price":2200.0,"currency_code":"UAH","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0943\/7885\/2723\/files\/pr-15528970486131.jpg?v=1793988329","url":"https:\/\/archivevam.com\/en\/products\/samchuk-ulas-volyn-ch-1-toronto-1952","provider":"ARCHIVEVAM РІДКІСНІ КНИГИ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}