PositiveThe Financial TimesThe reader is in safe hands with Smil ... There are welcome moments of light relief — good for dispensing at the dinner table ... Smil’s art is that he immerses readers rather than overpowering them, while delivering clear takeaway messages.
Victoria Belim
RaveTimes Literary Supplement (UK)Barbed by pain, this is a book as poignant as it is timely. And, like the rooster perched so precariously on the kitchen dresser in Borodyanka, it reflects the indestructible strength of the Ukrainian people, who so fiercely hold on to hope.
