The Yellow Prince — Vasyl Barka
The Yellow Prince (1963) is a novel by Vasyl Barka about the Holodomor of 1932–1933, one of the first and most important works of fiction about this tragedy.
The Yellow Prince is a novel about the Katrannik family, destroyed by artificial famine. The "Yellow Prince" is hunger that entered every home. Barka, himself a Holodomor survivor, wrote a work of immense emotional power.
Published in emigration and long banned in the USSR, the novel became the definitive work on the Holodomor — the genocide of the Ukrainian people — after independence. It is one of the most heart-wrenching books in Ukrainian literature.
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| Author | Vasyl Barka |
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