The Thickets

By Józef Łobodowski

The Thickets is the first volume of Polish poet and novelist J zef Lobodowski's Ukrainian Trilogy, written between 1955 and 1960. Set primarily in Russia's Kuban region, the novel unfolds against a rich backdrop where Ukrainians, Russians, and Cossacks live alongside Tatars, Circassians, and waves of other peoples under Tsarist rule--among them Armenians and Poles. From this world emerges Staś (Stanislaw), a young Pole and the central figure of the trilogy.

In The Thickets, Lobodowski paints a stark, unforgettable portrait of the turmoil that engulfed the former Russian Empire after the fall of the Tsar and Kerensky's government. For Staś, once a student at a classical gymnasium, survival now means peddling contraband on the black market. Through his eyes, the reader is plunged into the chaos of war, revolution, and occupation--rendered with visceral power and human urgency.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9633867452
• ISBN13: 9789633867457
• Release Date: December 2024
• Publisher: Central European University Press
• Length: 450 Pages