Wound av Oksana Vasyakina

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<p><b>A breathtaking novel of grief, love, creativity and a young woman''s queer and artistic awakening.</b><br><br>In the days after her mother''s death from breast cancer, Oksana, a young queer poet, decides to return her mother''s ashes to their working-class hometown in Siberia. It is a journey home that will take her through the raw, almost dreamlike emotions of early grief through to an acceptance of the wound that death leaves behind.<br><br>As she navigates the rituals of parting, Oksana feels her way through memory and heartache with a wry humour, reflecting on her complex relationship with her mother and on her own experiences of love, loss, sexuality and the search for home.<br><br>Powerful, lyrical and precise, this extraordinary debut is a novel which blurs the line between reality and creation. <i>Wound </i>is a both an exploration of grief and a journey towards love, happiness and creative fulfilment.<br><br><i>Translated from the Russian by Elina Alter</i><br><br><b>"Th