Amadoca
by Sofia Andrukhovych
Description
Mutilated beyond recognition in the combat in Eastern Ukraine, the protagonist of Amadoca makes it out alive, if only just. It’s too early to celebrate though: his injuries have caused complete amnesia. The man remembers neither his name nor his home town; not a single relative; not a fragment of his old life. At this point a woman finds him. Her love and patience can work miracles, reaching the deepest levels of memory and forgetting, bringing together discrete snippets of the maimed consciousness and weaving them together into the shared history. Amadoca was the largest lake in Europe that lay on the territory that is now Ukraine. First mentioned by Herodotus and faithfully recreated by medieval cartographers down the centuries it suddenly disappeared from accounts. How can large lakes, whole worlds or entire cultures disappears without a trace? And what is left behind in their wake? Are there paralels between Holocaust of East Europe’s Jews and the distruction of Ukrainian artists in Stalin’s Great Terror? Can one person’s forgetting reach several generations below ground? Are the signs and scars of maimed memories what really keeps us together? Can love and patience help to touch the mind of another human being?
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Foreign rights sold: German, Czech, Croatian, Slovak.
Contact: ivan.fedechko@starlev.com.ua
Contact of the Ukrainian Book Institute: ubi@ubi.org.ua
Author Biography
Sophia Andrukhovych was born in 1982 in Ivano-Frankivsk, earlier known as Stanislav. She is an author of five prose books: Milena’s Summer (2002), Old People (2003), Women of Their Men (2005), Salmon (2007) and Felix Austria (2014), as well as a children’s book The Chicken Constellation (2015) and numerous essays. Her works are translated into English, Polish, German, Czech, Serbian and other languages.
Bibliographic Information
- Publisher The Old Lion Publishing House
- Publication Date 2020
- Orginal LanguageUkrainian
- ISBN/Identifier 9786176796299
- Publication Country or regionUkraine
- Pages832
- ReadershipGeneral
- Publish StatusPublished
- Original Language TitleАмадока
- Original Language AuthorsАндрухович Софія
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