POSTPONED TCUP Book Club Reads Khromeychuk’s A Loss in March 2022

February 11, 2022
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A Loss book coverUpdate (September 2022): The #TCUPreadsALoss book club will be held throughout October 2022. The kick-off event will be a seminar with the author on October 5 at 4:30pm (online only). See more.

 

A Loss will still be our next TCUP Reads selection, but we're postponing the book club in light of the outbreak of full-scale war in Ukraine. We will provide an updated plan when possible.

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HURI’s Temerty Contemporary Ukraine Program will hold its seventh month-long, interactive book club in March 2022. Readers receive weekly emails and can discuss on Twitter, as well as attend events with the author. 

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This spring, we will be reading Olesya Khromeychuk’s A Loss: The Story of a Dead Soldier Told by His Sister (Columbia University Press, 2021). The month of reading will kick off with a public lecture by the author on March 2. A members-only discussion will be announced soon. 
 
The book can be purchased directly from Columbia University Press or via Amazon.

Book Description (from the CUP Website)

This book is the story of one death among many in the war in eastern Ukraine. Its author is a historian of war whose brother was killed at the frontline in 2017 while serving in the Ukrainian Armed Forces. Olesya Khromeychuk takes the point of view of a civilian and a woman, perspectives that tend to be neglected in war narratives, and focuses on the stories that play out far away from the warzone. 

Through a combination of personal memoir and essay, Khromeychuk attempts to help her readers understand the private experience of this still ongoing but almost forgotten war in the heart of Europe and the private experience of war as such. This book will resonate with anyone battling with grief and the shock of the sudden loss of a loved one.

About the Author

Dr Olesya Khromeychuk is a historian and writer. She received her PhD in History from University College London. She has taught the history of East-Central Europe at the University of Cambridge, University College London, the University of East Anglia, and King’s College London. She is author of ‘Undetermined’ Ukrainians. Post-War Narratives of the Waffen SS ‘Galicia’ Division (Peter Lang, 2013).

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