Вдома

Shcho robyty z͡hint͡si pisli͡a rozluchenni͡a, i͡akshcho donʹka uz͡he dorosla ĭ z͡hyve okremo, a kvartyru dovelosi͡a zalyshyty? Z͡Hinka pryïzdytʹ u portove selo, pochynai͡e prat͡si͡uvaty u knaĭpi svoho brata, oseli͡ai͡etʹsi͡a v budynku na okolyt͡si. Vidchutti͡a domu v neï navri͡ad chy kolysʹ bulo, ta ĭ chy moz͡hna vvaz͡haty svoïm toĭ dim, de mama ne vidchyni͡ai͡e tobi dvereĭ i zmushui͡e hodynamy chekaty na skhodakh? Zhodom inshyĭ dim, - toĭ, u i͡akomu narodylasi͡a donʹka, - z͡hinka sama zalyshyla kolyshnʹomu cholovikovi. Ne dyvno, shcho vona nazyvai͡e sebe li͡udynoi͡u bez korinni͡a. Ta chy stane domom dli͡a z͡hinky toĭ budynok na okolyt͡si sela, de vona u sorok visim rokiv nareshti z͡hyve sama, ale khovai͡e pistolet pid liz͡hkom, i i͡aku rolʹ tut vidihrai͡e dyvnyĭ cholovik, i͡akyĭ umii͡e stavyty pastky na kunyt͡sʹ? T͡Si͡a knyz͡hka - pro potribnistʹ domu, pro vkorinenni͡a, pro vaz͡hlyvistʹ pam"i͡ati, a shche - pro istoriï, shcho staly lehendamy ta i͡aki ne moz͡hna zabuvaty. The translation of this work was supported by a grant from the Goethe-Institut/Tvir perekladeno za pidtrymky hrantu Goethe-Institut.

What should a woman do after a divorce if her daughter is already an adult and lives separately, but the apartment had to be left? A woman comes to a port village, starts working in her brother's Kneipp, and settles in a house on the outskirts. She hardly ever had a sense of home, and can you consider your own the house where your mother does not open the door for you and makes you wait for hours on the stairs? Subsequently, the woman herself left another house — the one in which her daughter was born — to her ex-husband. No wonder she calls herself a man without roots. But will the house on the outskirts of the village become a woman's home, where she finally lives alone at the age of forty-eight, but hides a gun under the bed, and what role does a strange man who knows how to set traps for Martens play here? This book is about the need for home, rooting, the importance of memory, and also about stories that have become legends and should not be forgotten. The translation of this work was supported by a grant from the Goethe-Institut.