Forgottenness
Translated from Ukrainian by Zenia Tompkins.
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- Paperback published on 29/02/2024
- Page count: 272 pages
- ISBN: 9781739842345
Synopsis
Two tales intertwined in a profound double portrait, Forgottenness painstakingly traces parallels between the historical and the contemporary, the collective and the individual, between the stories of two people born on the same day, a century apart.
The narrator, a writer grappling with her growing anxiety and obsessive thoughts, becomes fixated on Viacheslav Lypynskyi (1882–1931), a once-significant figure in the struggle for Ukrainian independence who has since fallen into oblivion, into the gaping mouth of Time.
As she plunges into her nation’s history to come to terms with her own, we slowly uncover the complex relationship between time, memory and identity to confront the question – what does it mean to remember?
About the author
Tanja Maljartschuk, born in Ivano-Frankivsk (1983), is an acclaimed contemporary Ukrainian writer with three novels and several collections of short prose and poetry to her name.
She now writes in German as well as Ukrainian, and her work has been translated into more than ten languages.
Her most recent awards are the Theodor Kramer Prize for writing in Resistance and Exile (2023) and the Usedom Literature Prize (2022).
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