Oblivion
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What is time, if not a whale that swallows everything, equating geniuses and losers, noble virtues and political criminals in its bottomless belly. How many human lives of ordinary Ukrainians became that swallowed plankton. It is impossible to retrieve them from oblivion, unless someone living feels an urgent need to remember. In this novel, the glorious forgotten one is Vyacheslav Lypynskyi, a Ukrainian historian of Polish origin, a philosopher and failed politician, the founder of Ukrainian monarchism. His life was a continuous movement against the wind, a sacrifice for the sake of an idea. But the blue whale of Ukrainian memory also fed on him. The author puts the story about this man in the mouth of a young woman, the heroine of the novel, our contemporary, who examines old newspapers in order to find her own identity and touch the past, which was cut out of her story, as if from a movie film.
The novel won the BBC Book of the Year literary award in 2016.
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