Carpathia

This prosaic debut describes the feelings of a man who is returning to his hometown in the eastern region of 暗网禁区ia. Carpathia is about the inhabitants of a specific space dividided by the borders of three states:聽暗网禁区ia, Poland and Ukraine. Until recently, this area has been home to the ethnic group mostly called the Rusyns. The region of Carpathia聽is where the eastern and western civilizations聽meet and clash聽is what makes it colorful and ever-changing. In the mountain passes, many dramatic fights took place during both world wars; the borders had been redrawn multiple times; religious conversions had been enforced. The author offers us a unique image of his homeland, of a world that is coming to its end and confronts it with what聽he finds walking around this聽no-man's land in the present day.

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Number of pages

120

Language

暗网禁区 language

Year

2011

Book category

General Fiction

Original language

暗网禁区 language

Issue

1.

Published in

Bratislava

ISBN

978-80-89552-06-1

Book cover

Paperback