Transformations: Monsters and Other People
On a journey through a war-torn country, one can find that Ukrainians are simultaneously flexible and stubborn. A bitter lesson of war: Often, the way forward is a return to a certain point in the past.
Sofia Andrukhovych was born in 1982 in Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine. She has written six prose books. Yuliia Chumak
A flock of swans lifting off creates a noise unlike any other. First, their strong wings slap hard against the surface of the water, a percussion effect. Then the strings come in: the low whoosh of the powerful wings as they saw through the air.