Sweet Darusya: A Tale of Two Villages

Reception

• The Guardian called the novel strange and bewitching highlighting how its intimate tragedies illuminate Ukraine’s twentieth-century history.
• Academic research papers praised the translation and noted the work’s established international reception history prior to English publication.
• The commentary on its family-saga form and social memory was covered in World Literature Today.

Awards and recognition

• Shevchenko National Prize awarded to Maria Matios for Sweet Darusya.
• Book of the Year in Ukraine.