The Trumpeters of Jericho. The Gurnik Code

“The Trumpeters of Jericho” by the famous Czech composer, pianist and writer Ilya Hürnik (1923–2013) is a collection of witty, wise and ironic stories and fantasies on musical themes, which gained popularity during the famous “Prague Spring” (first published in 1965) and has long become a classic in Czech culture. The first translation of this book into Ukrainian was made in the late 1960s by Stefan Zabuzhko, the father of the writer Oksana Zabuzhko.

The current reprint is complemented by Oksana Zabuzhko’s autobiographical research story “The Code of Hürnik”, which for the first time opens up unknown pages from the history of the Ukrainian “sixties” to the reader and helps to take a new look at our recent past.