Petrichor: the Smell of Earth after the Rain

The novel "Petrichor: the Smell of Earth after the Rain" speaks and realizes injuries in the word that leave the flames of war in us. But it is necessary to move this pain into the space of interpersonal existence - and the possibility of treating the soul, restoration of hope for the future, finding the light that can give us only another, with its kindness, with its vision of our fate, with our love.

The effort not only to remain people but also to help those who are nearby - is the basis for the formation of the circulatory system of mercy and love common to all Ukrainians. War gives birth to leitmotifs that are repeated in the lives of thousands of people, as light is repeated in drops of water falling from heaven to earth.

Volodymyr Rafieienko's work helps to bring the characters from the dead end of personal circumstances to the level of a certain, though sometimes too absurd and carnival, but still the absolutely effective transformation of acute pain to light for the other that is near you.