This is a family novel. But not a contemplative, contemplative, contemplative one. It is a family story from the Eastern European area that the well-known American historian Timothy Snyder called the “Bloodlands” in his work. In this area between Poland, Ukraine, Belarus and Romania, with its borders constantly being changed by politics, millions of people were killed in the first half of the 20th century. From Hitler, from Stalin, but also from ultranationalist Poles and Ukrainians. Not only Jews were the victims, but they were the main victims.
