Forgottenness

"In this cryptic, haunting novel, the author wrestles with the meaning of Ukrainian identity and probes the elasticity of time, which eventually erases all identities – national and personal. The narrator’s malaise and weakening attachment to time serve as a metaphor for today’s Ukraine, as well as for other struggling democracies, including our own. Toward the end, she writes: “As years passed, I seemed to have less and less innate freedom left. I had been born with a big orb inside me, filled with freedom, like gas, but gradually my inborn supply of freedom leaked out, seeping into the surrounding expanse…” Forgottenness raises questions that are impossible to answer."