About the book: 1978 / The action of the novel "The Flock of Swan" takes place in the village of Babylon, which is located in Ukraine and stretches along the banks of the Chebrets River, a tributary of the Southern Bug. These are its “geographical coordinates”. The time frame is the twenties: the end of the NEP - the beginning of collectivization. The period of the formation of something new, a time of acute class struggle, a difficult break in the consciousness of the peasants. V. Zemlyak managed to show in his own way the events already reflected in our literature, illuminate them with new light, create unique, lively and plastic characters.