Hardly Ever Otherwise is a family saga set in the Ukrainian Carpathians at the beginning of the 20th century. It highlights the great passions of ordinary people, against the backdrop of the destiny of a territory martyred by successive wars and dominations.
In a remarkable style, masterfully interweaving narrative threads, Maria Matios delivers a tale, often cruel, where brothers kill each other over meager plots of land, where reckless women defy, without always challenging, the law of men who are sometimes virtuous and courageous, sometimes cowardly and powerless, and where witchcraft seems to wield real power.
Ukraine Book of the Year Award 2007
