The Museum of Abandoned Secrets: Library Edition

from knittingmomof3

The Museum of Abandoned Secrets by Oksana Zabuzhko is an expertly written book which I cannot praise highly enough. Zabuzhko has created quite a lengthy tome, yet I cannot fathom what could be removed without losing the many threads that weaves together this exquisite Ukrainian book. Having spent...

from GarySeverance

The Museum of Abandoned Secrets is a treasure, like an icon wrapped in intricate cloth buried by a mother before a siege. The novel by Oksana Zabuzhko is the story of Ukraine woven from the fabric of individual lives of characters and events from the history of the region. Ukraine is a country in...

from seeword

This is a huge, sweeping novel told in straight narrative, dreams, and flashbacks. It is long (750 pages) and intense. It took me three month to read it. The amazing thing was that although it is complicated and covers a vast swath of Ukrainian history and contemporary politics, I never got lost ...

from knittingmomof3

The Museum of Abandoned Secrets by Oksana Zabuzhko is an expertly written book which I cannot praise highly enough. Zabuzhko has created quite a lengthy tome, yet I cannot fathom what could be removed without losing the many threads that weaves together this exquisite Ukrainian book. Having spent...

from GarySeverance

The Museum of Abandoned Secrets is a treasure, like an icon wrapped in intricate cloth buried by a mother before a siege. The novel by Oksana Zabuzhko is the story of Ukraine woven from the fabric of individual lives of characters and events from the history of the region. Ukraine is a country in...