DR CACCIONI UA, HALYNA ZHURBA

The book Dr Caccioni introduces the multifaceted work of the Ukrainian writer Halyna Zhurba (real name Dombrovska, ne Nyvinska). The artist's legacy consists of impressionistic short stories, a historical trilogy, and a sensational novel published under the pseudonym Hemen Zhmurko in 1943. The dramatic plot of love polygons in the setting of a provincial town in the midst of the First World War reminded his readers of Margaret Mitchell's Gone with the Wind. With a subtle psychology, a love of detail, and a dramatic depth of human destiny, the author paints a story in which the main roles belong to extremely colourful figures.