Fiction. Translated from the Ukrainian by Vitaly Chernetsky. In the 1990s, Karl-Joseph Zumbrunnen, an Austrian photographer with Galician roots, travels repeatedly through Ukraine. The chaos of the transitional post- Soviet era seems infinitely more appealing than the boring life of the West especially since falling in love with his interpreter Roma Voronych. He accompanies her on a hair-raising trip to the Carpathian mountains where we hear of happenings in the solitude of the mountains, as well as in the "Tavern On The Moon," which served briefly as an observatory and subsequent athletic...
Fiction. Translated from the Ukrainian by Vitaly Chernetsky. In the 1990s, Karl-Joseph Zumbrunnen, an Austrian photographer with Galician roots, trave...