A Flock of Swans. Green Mills — Vasyl Zemlyak

In A Flock of Swans. Green Mills, Vasyl Zemlyak presents a sweeping epic of the Ukrainian countryside from the 1920s through the 1940s — a world of revolution, collapsing estates, early communes, and the rise of collectivization. 
But this is not a mere historical chronicle: Zemlyak filters these events through surrealistic images — an ancient weapons cache under a pear tree, a philosopher quoting Plato in the fields, a goat named Fabian facing a firing squad, a swing built by a sewing-machine salesman to marry off his daughters. 
Spanning 736 pages, this edition published by Vikhola is part of the Nekanonichnyy Kanon (“Non-canonical Canon”) series. 
Zemlyak’s narrative blends village realism, mythic overtones, and lyrical experimentation, offering readers a fresh, unsettling perspective on Ukrainian rural life and history.