Mirages
A novel
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Another new best-selling book by a young female writer, popular Belarusian writer Oksana Khvashchevskaya, which was favorably received by critics and readers. Oksana Khvashchevskaya returns the reader to the historical past of our region, the events of the Great Patriotic War, repressions, and the youth of our grandparents. He is looking for a way to preserve villages, farmsteads, old estates, behind which there is history and human destinies. He voices acute social problems. And she does this not only in words: Oksana Khvashchevskaya herself is building a house in one small village, on the very place where her great-grandmother's house once stood, where more than one generation of her ancestors lies in the old cemetery. "Mirages" for someone will seem just an adventurous story with intriguing love lines, while for others it will give the opportunity to plunge into the past, think about their own roots. The author tells about the fate of different people: from the Belarusian village, the regional center, Moscow, Minsk. Mirages can only be seen in the desert. Mysterious and very dangerous, sometimes they destroy entire caravans. So it is in life: a person may encounter something attractive, but not really existing. However, he deceives himself and, as a result, emptiness and disappointment remain in his soul. The heroes of Oksana Khvashchevskaya, being mistaken and seeing clearly, nevertheless find their happiness.