In & quot; Flowers of Nostalgia & quot; nostalgia is really enough: childhood memories are a bright background, which reflects not always happy and joyful thoughts about the present and future. Childhood, as it is seen from a distance, as it is remembered (in some ways, of course, idealizing, in some ways gaining excessive enthusiasm), remains a place of sincere and open observation, when later reflections based on knowledge and experience are superfluous and inappropriate. Therefore, these descriptions of the steppe, the horizon line caught by the child's eye, is a kind of beginning, from which the rest of the plots and moods. Everything important and significant is there & ndash; in the past, as far as it is near. After all, this is a memory & rsquo; memory based on respect and love & ndash; to places, to people, to life.
From the foreword by Serhiy Zhadan
The publication was commissioned by the Meridian Czernowitz International Literary Corporation.