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Kateryna Yushchenko Attends Soiree Presenting Oksana Zabuzhko’s Latest Novel
23 December 2009 22:53
December 23, 2009, Head of the Supervisory Board of the Ukraine 3000 International Charitable Foundation Kateryna Yushchenko took part in a soiree dedicated to the presentation of Oksana Zabuzhko’s new novel, The Museum of Abandoned Secrets. The event took place at the Azbuka art café in Kyiv.
Zabuzhko’s latest novel is a family saga narrating the fate of three generations in the 1940s-2004. The writer had worked on it for seven years. The novel is an intricate combination of a historical mystery, social psychology, and mystic thriller. Dream and reality constantly exchange their places, and the Ukrainian history of the last 60 years stands out as a living and integral entity for the first time. The historical part of the novel deals with the UPA. In the writer’s words, to “set the historical background properly,” she had to work in the archives and meet with many witnesses of those events, in part, UPA veterans.
“History can be compared to a family,” Mrs. Yushchenko said in her speech. “It can be merry or sad, sometimes tragic, but it’s still yours. Not knowing your history is the same as not knowing your family.”
Mrs. Kateryna expressed her hope that Zabuzhko’s new novel would be adapted for screen. “Not everybody is prepared today to give their life for Ukraine,” she said. “You show people able to sacrifice themselves for their country. Everybody has to see it.”
Also present at the soiree were First Deputy Head of the Secretariat of the President Yuri Yekhanurov, leader of the For Ukraine! Public movement Vyacheslav Kyrylenko, Head of the National Committee on Freedom of Speech and Developing Infosphere at the President of Ukraine Taras Petriv, writer and philosopher Yevhen Sverstiuk, professor with the Kyiv Mohyla Academy and Director of the SSU State Archive Volodymyr Vyatrovych, renowned writers, musicians, and public figures.
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