The Sugar Bowl

Ukrainian-language edition. The Sugar Bowl (Ukrainian title, transliterated: Tsukernytsia) is a family saga by Tetiana Stryzhevska, published by the Old Lion Publishing House in 2026.

A collection of old Kyiv recipes was once printed in just two copies. A century later it becomes the key to a mystery that ties the past to the present. The novel moves between Kyiv in the early twentieth century and Kyiv today, following women whose lives are shaped by love, betrayal and loss against a background of revolutions, persecution and war.

It is a book about women's strength, sisterhood and family memory, and about what passes from one generation to the next, sometimes as simply as a recipe. At 688 pages it is a long, absorbing read for many evenings, and a good choice for anyone who misses Kyiv or wants to see the city through the stories of its women.

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Edition details

• Author: Tetiana Stryzhevska
• Publisher: Old Lion Publishing House
• Year: 2026
• Language: Ukrainian
• Pages: 688
• Cover: hardcover
• Format: 130 × 200 mm
• ISBN: 9789664486160