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Title: |
A Loss: The Story of a Dead Soldier Told by His Sister |
| Series: |
Ukrainian Voices |
Search Result:
| By (author): |
Olesya Khromeychuk Series edited by: Andreas Umland |
| ISBN10-13: |
3838215702 : 9783838215709 |
| Format: |
Paperback |
| Size: |
210x150mm |
| Pages: |
126 |
| Weight: |
.176 Kg. |
| Published: |
ibidem - October 2021 |
| List Price: |
18.00 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: |
Reprint under Consideration
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| Subjects: |
Biography: historical, political & military |
| This book is the story of one death among many in the war in eastern Ukraine. Its author is a historian of war whose brother was killed at the frontline in 2017 while serving in the Ukrainian Armed Forces. Olesya Khromeychuk takes the point of view of a civilian and a woman, perspectives that tend to be neglected in war narratives, and focuses on the stories that play out far away from the warzone. Through a combination of personal memoir and essay, Khromeychuk attempts to help her readers understand the private experience of this still ongoing but almost forgotten war in the heart of Europe and the private experience of war as such. This book will resonate with anyone battling with grief and the shock of the sudden loss of a loved one. |
| Table of Contents: |
| Acknowledgments; Foreword; Preface; Theory and Practice of War, Part I; A Pair of Boots, Part I; A Wartime Wedding; Vertep; A Facebook Message; The Funeral, Part I; Lenin; The Funeral, Part II; Obituary; Wizard; The Funeral, Part III; Twenty-Five Folders; Masha; A Pair of Boots, Part II; Volodya; Mama; Harvest; That Short Story Was So Hard to Write; Theater of War; Ignoble Pain; Heart; Theory and Practice of War, Part II; The Safest Place in the Army; Cosy Grave; The Flat. Your Flat; What Remains; Spring; I Can’t Believe You’re Dead: A Letter. |
| Reviews: |
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“Grappling. I admire a book that invites me to grapple with knotty questions. Olesya Khromeychuk has written such a book–beautifully. Feminism and drones. Funerals and theater. Shrapnel and combat boots–size 8. ‘A Loss’ explores the lures of militarism at a granular level.”—Professor Cynthia Enloe, author of Nimo's War, Emma's War: Making Feminist Sense of the Iraq War
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“Moving, intelligent, and brilliantly written, this is a sister’s reckoning with a lost brother, an émigré’s with the country of her childhood, and a scholar’s with her own suddenly acutely personal subject matter. A wonderful combination of emotional and intellectual honesty; very sad and direct but also rigorous and nuanced. It even manages to be funny.”—Anna Reid, author of Borderland: A Journey Through the History of Ukraine
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“There has always been too much silence around the armed conflict in eastern Ukraine—Europe's forgotten war. Olesya Khromeychuk refuses to bend to this silence. In vivid, intimate prose and with unflinching honesty, she introduces us to the brother she lost in the war and found in her grief. Poignant, wise, and unforgettable.”—Dr Rory Finnin, University of Cambridge
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