Forbidden

A former graduate student who was working on a dissertation on the life and work of the outstanding poet Vasyl Stus, and now, by the will of circumstances, has become a nurse, was offered to care for a woman dying of a serious illness. As it turned out, the seriously ill woman was a KGB colonel in the past and met Stus many times, especially in the last days of his life. The novel is extremely richly depicted the poet's life in his native Donetsk region, surrounded by friends, teachers and writers, and in a concentration camp - where prisoners of conscience were held, blaming them for their beliefs. Much attention is paid in the novel to the fate of the poet's last manuscript collection.