The novel by the Hero of Socialist Labor, recipient of the Lenin Prize, Ukrainian prose writer Mykhailo Stelmakh—“A Thought for You”—is an anthem to great human love that his characters carry through their entire lives, an anthem to love for the homeland. This romantic epic reflects the life of a Ukrainian village on the eve of the Great Patriotic War and during the years of Hitler’s invasion. In the story of the Vasyuta family, in the clash between the chairman of the collective farm Turovets and a soulless careerist Khorostenkо, and in the struggle of Podilia patriots against the fascist invaders, the complex processes of those years are mirrored. Ruthless satire and sarcasm with which the writer strikes blatant careerists and traitors are followed by lyricism, and sometimes even pathos, when he writes about true heroes who did not flinch in the face of danger—showing both the height of consciousness and the strength of spirit, and the will to victory.