Currant wine

"Currant Wine" is another collection of short prose by Dzvinka Torokhtushko. Like the author's previous books, "Photographer" (2016) and "Mountain Street" (2021), this one is woven from the delicate fabric of human feelings against the backdrop of crises of the past, the sharpness of the present, and the illusory world of higher powers, which are present in each short story in one way or another.

In her unique manner of writing in a way that makes the heart stop, presenting a complex plot as a simple story in company or on the road, the author immerses the reader in a whirlpool of extraordinary stories, where human destinies are intertwined with Gordian knots and, at the same time, they are fragile, like precious porcelain, where all feelings are sharpened to the edge, and the ending of the stories is impossible to predict.

This book has it all: love, separation, dreams, a retrospective into unlearned historical lessons, past and present wars, and great pride in our defenders. There are the long-time readers' favorite characters, Pytrovna, Grandfather Myhalko and Grandma Syanka, as well as new, sometimes completely unexpected characters.

"Currant Wine" will not leave anyone indifferent, because Dzvinka Torokhtushko has such a command of her native language that the reader in each of her works will not feel like a passive observer, but will be a real character in it.