The Stone Cross

by Vasyl Stefanyk

The Stone Cross (Ukrainian: «Камі́нний хрест», romanized: Kaminnyi Hrest) is an epic psychological novel written in 1900 by Ukrainian writer Vasyl Stefanyk. The story is dedicated to the farewell of emigrant peasants to their native land before leaving for Canada at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries, after leaving the homeland of old Ivan Didukh. The author reveals the depressing feelings of the emigrant at the moment of his break with his native village and a piece of land, in the cultivation of which he invested all his life and must leave.

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Ukrainian