If Cities Could Speak Tetiana Bondarchuk

For readers aged 17+

A family saga spanning over forty years, connecting Belgium, Japan, and Ukraine.

If cities could speak, they would tell stories of how feelings ignite, what people are willing to do for love, and what they are ready to forgive those they love.

Marichka Vasylshyn and Sylvain Claessens met in Japan, where both came to study. She is a brilliant girl who grew up in Kyiv, in Rusanivka, surrounded by a loving family. Japanology captured her heart and became her calling and future profession. He is the son of a Belgian philology professor, growing up in the shadow of his famous father, and when he wins a grant to study in Japan, he goes there to finally live his own life and do what he loves. Feelings ignite between these young people from different worlds. However, Marichka left a fiancé in Ukraine, a former paratrooper and future doctor Maksym Zoriy, who is not ready to let go of his beloved so easily. A grand story of love and betrayal that will captivate the reader from the first page and make them weep and rejoice with the characters.