Sweet Darusya: A Tale of Two Villages

Sweet Darusya: A Tale of Two Village is a novel by Ukrainian writer Maria Matios.[1][2]

Reception

  • The Guardian called the novel strange and bewitching highlighting how its intimate tragedies illuminate Ukraine’s twentieth-century history.[3]
  • Academic research papers praised the translation and noted the work’s established international reception history prior to English publication.[4][5]
  • The commentary on its family-saga form and social memory was covered in World Literature Today.[6]

Awards and recognition

References

  1. ^ "Sweet Darusya: A Tale of Two Villages by Maria Matios". World Literature Today. Retrieved 2025-11-11.
  2. ^ veroni.lutska (2023-01-31). "10 books about complex history of Russia's attack on Ukraine and Ukrainians". Russia’s war in Ukraine. Retrieved 2025-11-11.
  3. ^ Myerson, Jonathan (2022-04-10). "Sweet Darusya: A Tale of Two Villages by Maria Matios – a strange, bewitching Ukrainian saga". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2025-11-11.
  4. ^ Zviahina, H. O.; Pototska, O. I.; Звягіна, Ганна Олександрівна; Потоцька, Олена Іванівна (2023). "The image of Ukrainian ethnic culture through the context of novels of Maria Matios "Solodka Darusia", "Hardly Ever Otherwise"". {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  5. ^ Hoșciuc, Maria (2015). "Maria Matios, Solodka Darusia". Romanoslavica (in Romanian). LI (2): 158–160. ISSN 2537-4214.
  6. ^ Yasynetska, Halyna (Summer 2019). "Sweet Darusya: A Tale of Two Villages". World Literature Today. Retrieved 11 November 2025.
  7. ^ Myerson, Jonathan (2022-04-10). "Sweet Darusya: A Tale of Two Villages by Maria Matios – a strange, bewitching Ukrainian saga". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2025-11-11.
  8. ^ "Феномен Марії Матіос". Library of the National Parliamentary Library of Ukraine (Gonchar Library) (in Ukrainian). Retrieved 11 November 2025.
  9. ^ Matios, Marii︠a︡ (2019). Sweet Darusya: A Tale of Two Villages. Spuyten Duyvil. ISBN 978-1-947980-93-8.