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` Not many novels of Ukraine get on Amazon. That this one made it is very good for it is a fascinating epic, providing a window into Ukraine. It skillfully ties together contemporary Ukraine with the World War II era. There is the dramatic story of Ukrainian nationalists, partisans, fighting the Soviets in Western Ukraine after World War II. And in today’s Ukraine, there is a heroic television journalist, Daryna, fighting against entrenched corruption. Wealthy investors want to create a beauty pageant on the journalist’s television station whose real purpose is to draw women into prostitution. I found both stories interesting, especially since the author says the resistance movement of the partisans was based on archives opened only after the fall of the Soviet Union. The leader of the Ukrainian resistance was only killed in 1954 in Lviv, by KGB agents. The novel is really about a people fighting for their soul. A people in the grip of oligarchs, a corrupt “elite” and Putin’s helpers.
The author is more a journalist and non-fiction writer than a novelist, though she is also a poet and there are many evocative passages. But some readers may be frustrated by her novel. It doesn’t gallop ahead but is more in the style of the Russian classics. It is too wordy, too long, with too many interruptions of the narrative. For example, there is a gripping, powerful scene where the KGB secret police have discovered and surrounded the hidden bunker of Ukrainian nationalists. The people inside must decide whether to surrender or die and they chose to die but in a way that tricks and kills many of the KGP agents surrounding the bunker. Instead of giving us a driving narrative Zabushko interrupts it with asides. Same goes for a long monologue where an old Ukrainian KGB colonel bares his soul. Too bad, for unknown to him but known to the reader, he reveals a shocking bit of information. Pacing is important. I read that when the movie western “High Noon” was previewed, audiences were not impressed. But then a genius editor re-cut the film and produced one of the greatest westerns ever made.
A good novel is written from the gut as much as the mind and Zabuzhko is too much of an intellectual here. Still, the book would make a great movie because all of the above can be corrected by a good director and scriptwriter. There is mystery, drama, noble characters and a world the West knows little of. I am grateful to Zabuzhko for excavating so much suppressed and repressed material that the Ukrainian people themselves are only now discovering. Slowly, their stolen history is being restored. (Zabushko has a bibliography of her sources in the back of the book.) Despite its faults, the book is unforgettable.


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Artfully written, but the stream-of-consciousness writing requires a commitment on the part of the reader to stick with the multi-layered, time-travel love stories around which the author builds the tragic and historically authentic story. Post- World War II Ukrainian Resistance, life during the Brezhnev era, the the Perestroika era, events leading up to the Orange Revolution---it all comes alive in the hands of the author and takes permanent residence in the readers mind.
Wow! Shades of James Joyce's "Ulysses." My paternal grandmother was from the Ukraine so I already felt a connection with the space part of the continuum (and did it continue!). Devastatingly sad, hysterically funny, almost always lyrically written, the reader will need to devote lots of time and attention while reading. Definitely an immersive experience...
Not a fast read, which I am partial too....but, after a few chapters was able to slow down and savor the feelings of the writer expressing memories of each moment in poetic detail, photo's and events that mold and shape our own destiny. A reflective insight into the events in our lives we sooner or later will understand more clearly as our own history is recorded in our memory.
This is a very good book, and the author, a major talent. Not a perfect novel, but a very very good novel, well-executed, and with a multitude of moments of breathtaking brilliance. The resurgence of Ukrainian culture, the rebirth of Ukraine's cultural identity, these are very important to the author. I share her feelings.
The dream sections tie it all together with philosophical intellect, and from a Cold War veteran's perspective it was enlightening to get some insight into what was going on across the Iron-Curtain borders. Maybe not enough fifty shades of vampire lust for the reader seeking bubble gum and entertainment, but still a much easier Eastern European read than Tolstoy (and all his characters changing names in mid-paragraph!) or Dostoevsky (and his dialogue that made me never want to speak with a Russian).
No matter what your taste in literature is, no American should give up on this novel before getting to page 484 when it turns prophetic about where America is now in 2019. I will go back and uncover that abandoned secret many times.
Amazing read all 700 pages but worth the effort. It is a descriptive book of the state of Ukrainian life in the years after its declaration of independence from Soviet Hegemony. The narrator is a TV news journalist who is searching for the truth about the death of a woman in a photograph of a small group of Ukrainian Partizan Army fighters captured by Soviet invaders in 1947. It moves back and forth from current time to 1947 and mixes messages from dreams and present time realities and coincidence that build to a climactic revelation about this enigmatic woman in the photograph. It is a love story and a realistic view of the corruption and anxiety of the people of Kiev who are faced with unlimited freedom for the first time in Ukraines history. Zabuzhko is considered Ukraines answer to Tolstoy. You need to make up your own opinion.
This is the best novel I've read in years. It's long, slow, and difficult -- but amazing. (It reminded of me of Ford Madox Ford's Parades End in this regard.) The 4 main characters -- 3 women, 1 man -- are absolutely compelling, and the plunge into the history of the Ukrainian resistance to Nazis and Soviets is unforgettable. The translation is completely smooth. Highly recommended!
` Not many novels of Ukraine get on . That this one made it is very good for it is a fascinating epic, providing a window into Ukraine. It skillfully ties together contemporary Ukraine with the World War II era. There is the dramatic story of Ukrainian nationalists, partisans, fighting the Soviets in Western Ukraine after World War II. And in today’s Ukraine, there is a heroic television journalist, Daryna, fighting against entrenched corruption. Wealthy investors want to create a beauty pageant on the journalist’s television station whose real purpose is to draw women into prostitution. I found both stories interesting, especially since the author says the resistance movement of the partisans was based on archives opened only after the fall of the Soviet Union. The leader of the Ukrainian resistance was only killed in 1954 in Lviv, by KGB agents. The novel is really about a people fighting for their soul. A people in the grip of oligarchs, a corrupt “elite” and Putin’s helpers.
The author is more a journalist and non-fiction writer than a novelist, though she is also a poet and there are many evocative passages. But some readers may be frustrated by her novel. It doesn’t gallop ahead but is more in the style of the Russian classics. It is too wordy, too long, with too many interruptions of the narrative. For example, there is a gripping, powerful scene where the KGB secret police have discovered and surrounded the hidden bunker of Ukrainian nationalists. The people inside must decide whether to surrender or die and they chose to die but in a way that tricks and kills many of the KGP agents surrounding the bunker. Instead of giving us a driving narrative Zabushko interrupts it with asides. Same goes for a long monologue where an old Ukrainian KGB colonel bares his soul. Too bad, for unknown to him but known to the reader, he reveals a shocking bit of information. Pacing is important. I read that when the movie western “High Noon” was previewed, audiences were not impressed. But then a genius editor re-cut the film and produced one of the greatest westerns ever made.
A good novel is written from the gut as much as the mind and Zabuzhko is too much of an intellectual here. Still, the book would make a great movie because all of the above can be corrected by a good director and scriptwriter. There is mystery, drama, noble characters and a world the West knows little of. I am grateful to Zabuzhko for excavating so much suppressed and repressed material that the Ukrainian people themselves are only now discovering. Slowly, their stolen history is being restored. (Zabushko has a bibliography of her sources in the back of the book.) Despite its faults, the book is unforgettable.