The new book by Vasyl Slapchuk, a Shevchenko Prize winner, well-known writer, literary critic, and Afghan soldier, is entitled “Love, Tao, and Marzipans.”
The events of Vasyl Slapchuk's novel "The Trampled Grass of Heaven" take place in a remote Ukrainian village. Seventeen-year-old Khrystyna spends summer vacations in the family home together with her parents, aunt and grandmother, who take care of t…