Wound A Novel 1st Edition Oksana Vasyakina by Oksana Vasyakina 9781646221455, 1646221451 instant download after payment.

From one of Russia’s most exciting new voices, Wound follows a young lesbian poet on a journey from Moscow to her hometown in Siberia, where she has promised to bury her mother’s ashes. Woven throughout this fascinating travel narrative are harrowing & at times sublime memories of her childhood & her sexual & artistic awakening. As she carefully documents her grief & interrogates her past, the narrator of Oksana Vasyakina’s autobiographical novel meditates on queerness, death, & love & finds new words for understanding her relationship with her mother, her country, her sexuality, & her identity as an artist.

A sensual, whip-smart account of the complicated dynamics of queer life in present-day Siberia & Moscow, Wound is also in conversation with feminist thinkers & artists, including Susan Sontag, Louise Bourgeois, & Monique Wittig, locating Vasyakina’s work in a rich & exciting international literary tradition.

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Oksana Vasyakina, a poet, novelist, curator  of creative writing courses, & feminist activist, originally published Wound in Russian in 2021. 

She was born in 1989 in Ust-Ilimsk (Irkutsk Oblast, Russia) & graduated from The Maxim Gorky Literature Institute & School of Performance (PYRFYR). Her debut book Women’s Prose was shortlisted for The Andrei Bely Prize in 2016. Some texts from the presented selection were included in The Arcady Dragomoshchenko Prize shortlist in 2016. Her book Wind of Fury was published by the АСТ, the largest book house in Russia. She has been the recipient of The Moskovskij Schet Prize & Liceum Prize. 

Elina Alter is a writer & translator. She is the coeditor of Circum