Stimmen zum Buch
“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
“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
“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
"The book does not dwell much on the current war, but it does not have to. [...] Khromeychuk’s clear-sighted prose expresses the pain that thousands, even millions, have felt, not just in Ukraine now but in every conflict, past and present." — Helen Parr, Literary Review, September 2022
"Khromeychuk shareswith readers the darkest and most intimate moments of any family experiencing such a tremendous loss.In A Loss, Khromeychuk shows that the experience ofgrief transcends individual circumstance and in fact, unites us." — Isobel Koshiw, Los Angeles Review of Books, April 2022
"This book is poignant and searingly honest. It presents a rounded portrait of a troubled character without diminishing his will to resist and the heroism of his sacrifice. [...] Essential reading for anyone interested in the impact of Putin’s war on Ukrainians." — Lucy Ash, amazon.co.uk
"Everyone must read this book. We owe it to the people who are now guests in our country." — C. Burdfield, amazon.co.uk