Forgottenness
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- ISBN 9781739842345
- Dimensions: 136 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 29 Feb 2024
- Publisher: Bullaun Press
- Publication City/Country: IE
- Product Form: Paperback
- Language: English
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Two tales of exile intertwined into a profound double portrait, Forgottenness painstakingly traces parallels between the historical and the contemporary, between the collective and the individual, between the histories 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?
Tanja Maljartschuk, who was born in Ivano-Frankivsk in western Ukraine in 1983, has lived in Vienna since 2011. She studied Ukrainian philology and worked as a journalist in Kyiv. In Ukrainian, Tanja is the author of five collections of short prose, two novels, a young adult novel, and a forthcoming poetry collection. Her work has been translated into more than ten languages and is widely available in German. She is a winner of the Joseph Conrad Korzeniowski Literary Prize (Poland and Ukraine) and the Kristal Vilencia Award (Slovenia). In 2016 Tanja won the BBC Book of the Year Award (Ukraine) for her novel Forgottenness, after previously being a two-time finalist for this award for the novel A Biography of a Chance Miracle and the collection Downwards from Above. Her work has been supported by grants and fellowships from various German, Austrian, and Polish arts foundations.
