About “Maria”
Maria is a 1934 historical novel by Ukrainian author Ulas Samchuk, dedicated "to the mothers who died of hunger in Ukraine in 1932-33." It follows the life of a village woman, Maria, from the 1861 emancipation of serfs to the 1932-33 Holodomor, and is the first work of fiction to treat the Ukrainian famine. It has been included in post-1991 Ukrainian school curricula. (Summary adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.)
Book details
- Published
- 1934
Some summaries adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.