The Museum of Abandoned Secrets

Name: The Museum of Abandoned Secrets
Brand: Brilliance Audio
Availability: InStock
Author: Oksana Zabuzhko
ISBN: 9781455895854

Author: Oksana Zabuzhko, Nina Murray

Narrator: Mary Robinette Kowal

Unabridged: 30 hr 34 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Brilliance Audio

Published: 10/09/2012

Categories: Fiction, Literary Fiction, Cultural Fiction

Synopsis

Spanning sixty tumultuous years of Ukrainian history, this multigenerational saga weaves a dramatic and intricate web of love, sex, friendship, and death. At its center: three women linked by the abandoned secrets of the past—secrets that refuse to remain hidden.While researching a story, journalist Daryna unearths a worn photograph of Olena Dovgan, a member of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army killed in 1947 by Stalin’s secret police. Intrigued, Daryna sets out to make a documentary about the extraordinary woman—and unwittingly opens a door to the past that will change the course of the future. For even as she delves into the secrets of Olena’s life, Daryna grapples with the suspicious death of a painter who just may be the latest victim of a corrupt political power play.From the dim days of World War II to the eve of Orange Revolution, The Museum of Abandoned Secrets is an “epic of enlightening force” that explores the enduring power of the dead over the living.© 2009 by Oksana Zabuzhko. ℗ 2012 Brilliance Audio, all rights reserved. English translation © 2012 by Nina Shevchuk-Murray.

About Oksana Zabuzhko

Oksana Zabuzhko was born in 1960 in Ukraine. She made her poetry debut at the age of 12, yet, because her parents had been blacklisted during the Soviet purges of the 1970s, it was not until the perestroika that her first book was published. She graduated from the department of philosophy of Kyiv Shevchenko University, obtained her PhD in philosophy of arts, and has spent some time in the USA lecturing as a Fulbright Fellow and a Writer-in-Residence at Penn State University, Harvard University, and University of Pittsburgh. After the publication of her novel "Field Work in Ukrainian Sex" (1996), which in 2006 was named "the most influential Ukrainian book for the 15 years of independence", she has been living in Kiev as a free-lance author. She has authored 17 books of poetry, fiction, and non-fiction, which have been translated into fifteen languages. Among her numerous acknowledgments are the Global Commitment Foundation Poetry Prize (1997), MacArthur Grant (2002), Antonovych International Foundation Prize (2008), the Ukrainian National Award, the Order of Princess Olha (2009), and many other national awards.
Halyna Hryn is a Ukrainian to English translator.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Viv

I lost count of the number of times I contemplated giving up on this book - even at 500 pages through I was tempted to call it a day! But it seemed like always, just as I was about to give up, there would be an astonishing passage that drew me back in and I do feel a sense of great accomplishment at......more

Goodreads review by Bjorn

People often forget the evil they've done unto others, but retain forever the antipathy toward those they've wronged - reasons for this are found and fit into the puzzle later, retroactively. Don't ask me to write a fair review of this. I can't. Yes, that's a standard cop-out and all, but in this cas......more