Wound
Vasi︠a︡kina, Oksana, 1989-2024
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In the days after her mother's death from breast cancer, Oksana, a young queer poet, decides to return her mother's ashes to their working-class hometown in Siberia. It is a journey home that will take her through the raw, almost dreamlike emotions of early grief through to an acceptance of the wound that death leaves behind. As she navigates the rituals of parting, Oksana feels her way through memory and heartache with a wry humour, reflecting on her complex relationship with her mother and on her own experiences of love, loss, sexuality and the search for home. Powerful, lyrical and precise, this extraordinary debut is a novel which blurs the line between reality and creation.
Main title:
Wound / Oksana Vasyakina ; translated by Elina Alter.
Author:
Vasi︠a︡kina, Oksana, 1989-, authorAlter, Elina, translator
Imprint:
London : MacLehose Press, 2024.
Collation:
304 pages ; 20 cm
Notes:
Translated from the Russian.
ISBN:
9781529429725 (pbk)
Dewey class:
891.735FFICTION
Language:
EnglishRussian
BRN:
3773291
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