STEPPE HORIZONS W.UKRAIŃSKA (BARWIONE BRZEGI)

Lyudmila Kovalenko's Steppe Horizons is a feminine, urban, socio-domestic, realistic, and autobiographical novel about women from Ukrainian and Greek-Ukrainian families in Mariupol. It is a story with a very cosy and warm everyday flavour, a kind of Ukrainian hygge interspersed with socio-historical and, in some places, socio-political events, which, however, do not overshadow the private story of the formation of female personalities in their relationships with men. The romantic and everyday motifs and plots are complemented by the witty context of Ukrainian-Greek, Ukrainian-Jewish, and Ukrainian-Russian relations, the local colour of Mariupol and its surroundings, and the everyday life and traditions of the Ukrainian Azov region.