Kraina is a book about the painful present of a people over whom the terror of history has invaded, scorching the earth and destroying innocent lives. It is a book about survival, about pain and hope, about patience and faith, beyond the claws of death, beyond cruelty and the power to endure.

Elena Netcu

"Olena stayed that night by Pantile's bed, counting the drops of the infusion... one... two... a hundred... a thousand... moments of life that will bring a smile to the lips of the beloved man. He looked intently at her closed eyes and saw a slight tremor... He was waiting for them to open, to look at their blue with silver reflections like the sky of Ukraine and it even seemed to him that they were opening, it seemed to him that there were the ragged clouds of destiny, even he saw how the devastating smoke of the warplanes wrote words of fire in the sky of his country: "We will not be defeated, we will fight with our last strength, with stones, with rakes, with pitchforks, but we will fight! We will eat roots, earth, but we will fight!"