About the book: 1982 / The author is a famous Slovak prose writer who seriously made a name for himself in the 70s. The action of his epic novel takes place at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries, until the end of the First World War, which caused the rise of the national liberation movement, as a result of which Czechoslovakia gained state independence. The history of the Pihand family reflects in focus the fate of many generations of Slovaks who suffered under the yoke of royal Hungary and the Austro-Hungarian monarchy.