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Forgottenness - A Novel
Tanja Maljartschuk; Translated by Zenia Tompkins
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Winner of the BBC Ukrainian Book of the Year Award and the German
Usedom Prize, Forgottenness movingly—and
unflinchingly—illuminates the intricacies of the Ukrainian
experience in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. An
exceedingly anxious young narrator grapples with a host of
conditions, from obsessive-compulsive disorder and alcoholism to a
creeping sense of agoraphobia. As her symptoms deepen, she finds
unexpected solace and companionship in researching the historical
figure of Viacheslav Lypynskyi (1882–1931), a social and
political activist of Polish descent who played a pivotal role in
the struggle for Ukrainian independence—and just so happened to
struggle with hypochondria. Through a series of mesmerizing
digressions, the narrator’s own family saga is told in parallel
with Lypynskyi’s, culminating in “an impressively sincere
self-inquiry about identity”?(Jury of the Usedom Prize, led by
Olga Tokarczuk). Shot through with wry humor and brilliantly
translated by Zenia Tompkins, this urgent work announces Tanja
Maljartshuk as a major voice in world literature.
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