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Forgottenness
Reader Score
76%
76% of readers
recommend this book
Critic Reviews
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An award-winning novel from one of Ukraine's most prolific contemporary authors, Forgottenness tells a spellbinding story of belonging and uprootedness, as understood by two exiles across time. An exceedingly anxious narrator grapples with a host of conditions, from obsessive-compulsive disorder to a creeping sense of agoraphobia. As her symptoms deepen, she finds unexpected solace researching Viacheslav Lypynskyi (1882-1931), a social and political activist of Polish descent who played a pivotal role in the struggle for Ukrainian independence--and who nursed his own comorbidities. In this long-deceased ideologue the narrator finally finds companionship, mining her country's history in pursuit of a better grasp over her own. Brilliantly translated by Zenia Tompkins, Forgottenness movingly illuminates the intricacies of the Ukrainian experience and announces Tanja Maljartschuk as an essential voice in contemporary world literature.
Book Details
- Publisher: Liveright Publishing Corporation
- Publish Date: Jan 23rd, 2024
- Pages: 272
- Language: English
- Edition: undefined - undefined
- Dimensions: 8.10in - 5.40in - 0.80in - 0.52lb
- EAN: 9781324093220
- Categories: • Literary
About the Author
Maljartschuk, Tanja: - 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.
Tompkins, Zenia: - Zenia Tompkins is an American literary translator and the founder of the Tompkins Agency for Ukrainian Literature in Translation (TAULT).
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Praise for this book
It's no coincidence that time and memory are the big topic today, feeding off the anxieties of the world. Tanja Maljartschuk's novel is about the giant blue whale of time swallowing everything living on its way. What she is interested in is not even disappearance but tracelessness. Both personal and political, this book rages against time and oblivion as all true literature does.--Georgi Gospodinov, author of Time Shelter (International Booker Prize 2023)
An impressively sincere self-inquiry about identity.--Jury of the Usedom Prize, led by Olga Tokarczuk
A novel that dares and wins.--Taz [Germany]
[R]esonant . . . Maljartschuk fruitfully explores themes of erasure and remembrance to meditate on what survives the onslaught of time.-- "Publishers Weekly"