Description:
Winner of the BBC Ukrainian Book of the Year Award
Winner of the Usedom Literature Prize
"The first novel originally written in Ukrainian to be published by a major U.S. trade house . . . the novel itself pushes back against despair, simply by virtue of existing . . . haunted and haunting." --Judith Shulevitz, The Atlantic
From one of Ukraine's most prolific contemporary authors comes this profound novel of belonging and uprootedness, as understood by two exiles across time.
Brief description: Tanja Maljartschuk was born and raised in Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine, and now lives in Austria. Her works have won the BBC Ukrainian Book of the Year Award, the Usedom Prize, and the Ingeborg Bachmann Prize, among others.
Review Quotes: Resurrection is the great theme of Forgottenness. Maljartschuk never uses the word, but reading between the lines, we understand that the exhuming of memory is meant to be a miracle . . . the novel itself pushes back against despair, simply by virtue of existing . . . haunted and haunting.--Judith Shulevitz "The Atlantic"