The Museum of Abandoned Secrets

The Museum of Abandoned Secrets (Ukrainian: Музей покинутих секретів) is a 2009 novel written by Oksana Zabuzhko. The novel, more than 800 pages long, spans six decades of contemporary Ukrainian history.[1]

Critics have compared the book to Thomas Mann's Buddenbrooks and works of Fyodor Dostoyevsky. The novel, Zabuzhko's third, is a modern multigenerational saga which covers the years 1940 to 2004, framed as investigations by a journalist, Daryna Hoshchynska, of historical events in western Ukraine including the Holodomor, the Ukrainian Insurgent Army, and later political changes, ending just before the Orange Revolution.[2][3]

The book won the 2010 award for best Ukrainian book, presented by Korrespondent magazine,[4] and the 2013 Angelus Central European Literature Award, presented by the City of Wroclaw.[5][6] Angelus jury president, Natalya Gorbanevskaya, described the book as a "book that weaves into one history and modernity, the book that features magic, love, betrayal, and death."[2]

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References
  1. "Oksana Zabuzhko: 'Hard to be woman'", Kyiv Post, December 1, 2011.
  2. "Ukrainian Writer Wins Central European Literary Award", Worldwide News Ukraine, October 21, 2013.
  3. Oleh Kotsarev, "The Museum of Abandoned Secrets" (review), Krytyka, March 2014.
  4. " Корреспондент назвав переможців конкурсу Краща українська книга-2010" ("Korrespondent named winners Best Ukrainian Book 2010"), Korrespondent, July 1, 2010 (in Ukrainian).
  5. Olesia Yaremchuk, "The Angel of Central Europe is flying to Ukraine: The winner of one of the most prestigious literature awards was named in Wroclaw", Den, October 23, 2013.
  6. "Angelus 2013 for Oksana Zabuzhko", City of Wroclaw, February 7, 2014.


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