Breath of the storm

"Breath of the Storm" is the second part of Ivan Melezh's famous "Palessian Chronicle," which continues the love story of Vasil and Hanna against the backdrop of complex changes in the life of a Palessian village. This is Belarusian classic literature, where personal destinies intertwine with great historical events.

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The reader becomes acquainted with the second part of Ivan Melezh's "Palessian Chronicle," where they will meet familiar characters – Vasil Dyatl, Hanna Charnushka, Khalimon and Yaukhim Hlushak, and Apeika, the "Bolshevik with a human face." New characters also appear – the staunch collectivizer Bashlykov and the poet Ales Mayoǔy. The writer continues to unfold the narrative flow, which can be called a saga about Polesia and compared to the works of Galsworthy, Faulkner, and Gabriel García Márquez, who moved from the regional to the universal. The center of the world created by Melezh remains Kurani, where houses stood on an island, where Vasil and Hanna loved each other. And... they continue to love, despite everything – despite the Hlushaks, despite village morality, despite collectivization. But Vasil's dream of the promised land, the one near the brickyard, never leaves him...