The Woman Behind the Waterfall
A celebration of Ukrainian culture

Language is art. You don't believe me? Read the first page of Leonora Meriel's 'Woman Behind the Waterfall'. It is rarely you find a book that makes you feel and live through a character who may have little to do with your culture or background, and yet the potency of their world is inescapable as y......more

Seven-year-old Angela is taken to flights of fancy, literally. Her spirit inhabits a bird, a flower, the river water, or the sky, and rises at night to dance with her Nightspirit protector and her dead grandmother's spirit. With their help, Angela struggles to bring her depressed, suicidal, alcoholi......more

A poetic, sensory book relating a story in rural Ukraine although it rings universal, about women's vitality, strength and wisdom through generations. Highly recommended......more

This book … is certainly something else. And I just can’t pin how I feel about it. It tells the emotional and deep story of three women (Grandmother, Mother, and Daughter) and their struggle with loss, sadness, and darkness. The writing style is … difficult to describe for me. It is very flowery and h......more

This spring, the nights and days are stretching themselves out in a heart-beat sleep. From the first page I knew I would love this book. The rich and lyrical language of this book is told through the eyes of the child heroine takes you on a wonderful ride of innocence and generational love and raises......more