Амадока

Mutilated beyond recognition in one of the hot spots of eastern Ukraine, the novel's hero survives by a miracle, but his injuries have wiped out his memory: he remembers neither his name nor where he comes from, nor a single person close to him or any fragment of his former life. So he is found by a woman whose love and patience can work wonders, reaching into the deepest layers of oblivion and memory and sewing a shared history back together. Amadoka, the largest lake in Europe, mentioned by Herodotus and drawn on maps for centuries until it vanished without trace, frames the book's questions: how whole worlds and cultures disappear, and whether the Holocaust in Eastern Europe and the destruction of the Ukrainian intelligentsia under Stalin are connected.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

829 pages in the original

Genres

Historical, War, Love (assigned by AI)

Set in

Ukraine

First published

2020 by Видавництво Старого Лева

Author's age

38 when first published

ISBN

9786176796299 (original)