The life of Ukrainian emigrants in Canada is the subject of the novel "On Hard Land" (1967). The hero of the novel Pavlo Danyliv is a strong type of Ukrainian man, deprived of inferiority complexes, a pronounced individualist who wants to live, not exist.
The enduring type of all works by U. Volyn "," Maria "," Frost Farm "); energetic manager, entrepreneur ("Fist", "Darkness", "On solid ground"); intellectual ("Youth of Vasily Sheremeta"); warrior ("Mountains say", "What does not heal the fire"). Despite the diversity of the characters, they have much in common. They seem to create their own world, their own reality, in which they live their separate lives.
