The third volume of the well-known Ukrainian-American author's writings contains a selection of his prose works in Ukrainian. It contains his first novel Roads , Ukrainian-language versions of excerpts of all of his seven books of fiction in English which are gathered under the title Seven Attempts, and the autobiography Running Barefoot Home and Back. From the first two works, the reader may learn how desperately the author has searched through the course of his literary career for an adequate language in which to express himself; from the third one -- about the world in which he has lived and his outlook on it.

Yuriy Tarnawsky is a bilingual Ukrainian/English author, member of the New York Group, a group of Ukrainian йmigrй avant-garde writers, Association of the Writers of Ukraine, and Fiction Collective, an organization of American non-commercial writers. Considered one of the most radical modernists in Ukrainian literature, he has authored nineteen collections of poetry, seven plays, and nine books of prose. He resides near New York.