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Butterflies on Pins. It Strikes Eight. Adult Children is a compelling trilogy by Irina Vilde that explores the emotional, moral, and social tensions a young girl faces as she comes of age in early 20th-century Ukraine.
Through three interlinked novellas — Butterflies on Pins, It Strikes Eight, and Adult Children — Vilde showcases how patriarchal expectations, societal hypocrisy, and colonial pressures suffocate personal freedom and self-expression.
The young heroine, Dar’ka, becomes a metaphorical “pinned butterfly”: admired yet constrained, forced into roles she did not choose. As she rejects conformist norms, Vilde illustrates the painful costs and the resilience required to assert identity.
With 512 pages in this edition, published by Vikhola in its Non-canonical Canon series, the work is both a feminist manifesto and a key text in Ukrainian modernist literature