The family saga in the short stories ‘Almost never the other way around’ by the prominent Ukrainian writer Maria Mathios is not inferior to her famous ‘Sweet Darusa’ in terms of skill of writing and depth of presentation. ‘It is not time that counts, but a person in the circumstances of time’ - the writer reveals this thesis through the dramatic history of several Hutsul families during the First World War. The great passions of ordinary people, the light delirium of mysticism, the eternal dilemmas of Love-Hate, Sin-Atonement, a multi-layered plot...