Episodic Memory (2007) is one of those books which seem to be written in hologrammatic ink. As you turn the pages you see butterflies drifting over the Steppe or hear a dog barking in a summer that faded fifty years ago. The novel begins with a description of debris and a breaking mirror in a Ukrainian farmyard. The accumulation of detail enmeshes the reader, transporting them through the mirror and into the dilapidated hinterland of Soviet Ukraine, writes Stephen Komarnyckyj.
The book tells the story of a young girl growing up in a Ukrainian village and her return, as …read more
Source: EU Today
