Yellow Prince

"The Yellow Prince" is a terrible chronicle of the famine organized against the peasantry of Ukraine by the leadership of the Soviet Union in 1932-1933. Barka himself experienced the famine and saw with his own eyes the horrors of cannibalism. The novel centers on the tragedy and martyrdom of the Ukrainian Katrannyk family, who were destined to fall victim to the Bolshevik regime and starve to death. The writer creates the image of the Yellow Prince - a symbol of evil, demonic power, totalitarianism, which brings with it only destruction, devastation, and the death of millions of people. L. Pliushch, a Ukrainian literary scholar and human rights activist, called this novel "Dante's Hell of Barka, rooted in Ukrainian folklore."