Who is Jozef Vinich?

Jozef is Ondrej's son and the narrator of the story. He is a son, a brother, a shepherd, and a solider, in that order. His journey to the end of WWI makes up the bulk of the story, and yet at the war's end he is only twenty years old. As a teen, he experiences the common surge to be away from his father and do things as differently from him as possible. Yet as he goes through the war he finds himself returning to his father's lessons and wishing for his comforting presence. He is patient, quiet, and contemplative like Ondrej, but he is also passionate and empathetic, traits the reader sees in the brief glimpse of his mother, Elizabeth.