Many people want to cross over to the other side of reality. But what are the determinants and limits of reality? What awaits them outside? The answers to these questions differ radically from one environment to another, and from one culture to another, but what was the situation like in the Far West of Ukraine at the beginning of the new millennium?
The writer, through the characters of his novel, tries to discover this, taking the reader into a whole world of beliefs and rituals, through an endless coded maze with many hints, offering doses of mysterious phenomena, at the right time; What creates terror. “The Copper Trees” is the first novel by the famous Ukrainian writer Lyubko Derysh. The novel is saturated with metaphysics, mysticism, music, lust, and love... The narrative is very personal,It touches reality through the thoughts of a writer shaped by music, as it sheds light on the social, moral and psychological transformations of at least two generations, in the period following the collapse of the Soviet Union. The author resorts to using Galician colloquial expressions (Lviv province) and street words; To address the youth, speaking for them. It shows us the life of young people in a small town, their traditions, their complex relationships with each other, and their attempts to find the meaning of life and their own way in it. All of this in an atmosphere of non-spirituality, purposelessness, and meaninglessness of existence, and the despair that clouds the eternal struggle between good and evil.
