This book is a journey into the childhood of five boys and girls from different regions of Ukraine at the end of the 19th century. It reveals a world of rituals, words and things that once seemed commonplace in Hutsulshchyna and Bukovyna, Polissya, Podillia and Naddnipryanshchyna. The story begins with the cutting of the umbilical cord by a midwife and ends with several boisterous Ukrainian weddings. The authors combine artistic narrative with ethnographic material and show h...
