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'How can hope exist when the past is so easily forgotten?
'Pasha Ivanov is a child of the Freeze, born in Moscow during Brezhnev's repressive rule over the Soviet Union. As a small child, Pasha sat at the kitchen table night after night as his parents and their friends gathered to preserve the memory of terrifying Stalinist violence, and to expose the continued harassment of dissidents.
'When Gorbachev promises glasnost, openness, Pasha, an eager twenty-four year old, longs to create art and to carry on the work of those who came before him. He writes; falls in love. Yet that hope, too, fragments and by 1999 Pasha lives a solitary life in St Petersburg. Until a phone call in the middle of the night acts as a summons both to Moscow and to memory.
'Through recollections and observation, Pasha walks through the landscapes of history, from concrete tower suburbs, to a summerhouse during Russia's white night summers, to haunting former prison camps in the Arctic north. Pasha's search to find meaning leads him to assemble a fractured story of Russia's traumatic past.' (Publication summary)
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Dedication: For my parents, Nina and Martin, and my sisters, Emily and Meredith
Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of
Other Formats
- Sound recording.
Works about this Work
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Inherited Loss
2016
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , August no. 383 2016; (p. 28)
— Review of The Memory Artist 2016 single work novel -
Review : The Memory Artist
2016
single work
review
— Appears in: The Adelaide Review , August no. 438 2016; (p. 32)
— Review of The Memory Artist 2016 single work novel -
The Memory Artist Review : Katherine Brabon's Profound Vogel-winning Novel
2016
single work
review
— Appears in: Brisbane Times , 17 June 2016;
— Review of The Memory Artist 2016 single work novel The Memory Artist opens in 1999 when the narrator, Pasha, a young Russian writer, hears his mother has died. Pasha is a child of dissidents who grew up in Moscow amid secret gatherings as his mother and her friends campaigned for the release of political prisoners during the Brezhnev era. During his childhood the "shiny mint-green Latvian radio" on the kitchen table, with its broadcasts from the BBC or Voice of America, was a beacon in an otherwise grey world. ...' -
Finding an Artistic Voice After a Life of Oppression
2016
single work
review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 18-19 June 2016; (p. 25) The Saturday Age , 18-19 June 2016; (p. 25)
— Review of The Memory Artist 2016 single work novel -
Review : The Memory Artist
2016
single work
review
— Appears in: The Saturday Paper , 14 May 2016;
— Review of The Memory Artist 2016 single work novel
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Review : The Memory Artist
2016
single work
review
— Appears in: The Saturday Paper , 14 May 2016;
— Review of The Memory Artist 2016 single work novel -
Finding an Artistic Voice After a Life of Oppression
2016
single work
review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 18-19 June 2016; (p. 25) The Saturday Age , 18-19 June 2016; (p. 25)
— Review of The Memory Artist 2016 single work novel -
The Memory Artist Review : Katherine Brabon's Profound Vogel-winning Novel
2016
single work
review
— Appears in: Brisbane Times , 17 June 2016;
— Review of The Memory Artist 2016 single work novel The Memory Artist opens in 1999 when the narrator, Pasha, a young Russian writer, hears his mother has died. Pasha is a child of dissidents who grew up in Moscow amid secret gatherings as his mother and her friends campaigned for the release of political prisoners during the Brezhnev era. During his childhood the "shiny mint-green Latvian radio" on the kitchen table, with its broadcasts from the BBC or Voice of America, was a beacon in an otherwise grey world. ...' -
Review : The Memory Artist
2016
single work
review
— Appears in: The Adelaide Review , August no. 438 2016; (p. 32)
— Review of The Memory Artist 2016 single work novel -
Inherited Loss
2016
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , August no. 383 2016; (p. 28)
— Review of The Memory Artist 2016 single work novel -
First-timer Takes Out Vogel's Literary Award
2016
single work
column
— Appears in: The Age , 27 April 2016; (p. 35)
Awards
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cRussia,ccFormer Soviet Union,cEastern Europe, Europe,