The Dark Night of the Soul - Softcover

Hryhorczuk, Daniel

 
9781735240039: The Dark Night of the Soul
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1735240036 ISBN 13: 9781735240039
Publisher: Golden Bough LLC, 2024

Synopsis

The Dark Night of the Soul is a novel about a Ukrainian author, Lev Veles, who embarks on a spiritual journey to seek redemption and make his life cohere. Lev hopes to reconcile with his Russian daughter, Sophia, who believes that he is responsible for her mother’s death. In Venice during the height of the pandemic, he meets a grotesquerie of characters at a Carnival ball who challenge his Christian faith. Lev struggles with competing beliefs – science vs. religion; reality vs. illusion; and spirituality vs. nihilism – before facing his demons during his dark night of the soul. Sophia undertakes her own perilous search for the father of her unborn child. In war-torn Ukraine, she discovers the truth about Lev and learns that human evil is worse than any supernatural evil. Lev’s spiritual journey parallels Ukraine’s quest for existence: as Russia tries to destroy her spirit, Ukraine must overcome her own dark night of the soul.

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About the Author

Daniel Hryhorczuk is a Professor Emeritus at the University of Illinois School of Public Health. He studied creative writing at Northwestern University before pursuing a career in medicine, toxicology, and global health. He is the author of three critically acclaimed novels: Caught in the Current, Myth and Madness, and Amerikana. The Midwest Book Review has described him as "a talented author of wit, imagination, and a fundamentally gifted storyteller.

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Publisher
Golden Bough LLC
Publication date
2024
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1735240036
ISBN 13 
9781735240039
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
290