Irkadura Ksenia Anske Books
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"My mama became a catfish when I was two, on the day I stopped talking." Neglected since birth by her mother, Irina Myshko hasn’t spoken a word for most of her short Soviet life. Outcast as a mute idiot and abused by her mother's boyfriends, she escapes into an alternate reality where true natures show and people are revealed as the beasts they are. Pregnant, homeless, and penniless, Irina has to make a choice — learn to live in this splintered world or descend into madness.
Irkadura Ksenia Anske Books
What a heartbreaking, poignant story.Have you ever read a book that ended up being wonderful, even though the first chapter or so was boring, but you kept at it?
Great. Yeah. Irkadura isn't like that.
This story yanked me in from the first page and though I wanted to read it slowly, stretching it out, savoring little nibbles here and there...
I could not. I ate it up in one big gulp.
From the first mention, I was so worried for the eaglet. As I read, I thought I knew how I hoped it would end.
I was wrong.
I came to the last couple of pages and held my breath. I knew exactly what was going to happen.
The end was completely different than anything I could have imagined, but reading it, I realized it was the only right way for the story to finish.
The mouse and the eaglet. They held my heart, filled it to bursting with emotion, and ripped it open with a jagged knife.
Thank you. I loved it.
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Irkadura Ksenia Anske Books Reviews
Irkadura is a strange sort of book, completely unique. If I could describe the book as any one animal, it would be this a sad, depressed, and abused dog.
I went into Irkadura with little more than a vague understanding that the book takes place in Russia and follows a young girl. I expected a tragic story. What I didn't expect was that I would fall completely in love with the characters Anske has infused the book with. Each was incredibly well thought-out, and all contributed to this incredible story.
Prejudice plays a massive role in the foundation of Irkadura. While saying which types of prejudice are in the book may be considered a spoiler, I will say that most of them were unexpected, and provided an unconventional insight into these issues.
The writing itself was very well done. I loved how it alternated between Irkadura describing things literally, then figuratively. Most of the figurative descriptions are Irina's (the main character) way of dealing with various traumatic incidents . . . and there are a lot of these. I did find a few sections throughout the book a bit hard to follow because of this, especially near the beginning. While every italicized section was clear enough, I found the sudden switch in some of the regular text to be particularly difficult. I could piece together what was happening, but I feel the book may have benefited from scaling back some of this description at times.
The only other problem I had with the book was in relation to Irina's view on communism. This whole issue felt a bit shoehorned in, and while I don't doubt that it would have been on everyone's mind, I do think that it could have been handled more effectively. The parts in particular that bothered me were when Irina would come across what she defines as a 'statue' of Stalin and when she would judge others based on being communist followers. There were parts of the book where this was handled very well (I would need to spoil some of my favorite aspects of the book to properly elaborate on this), but there were just a few short scenes that felt a bit heavy handed.
That said, I loved this book. It might be the most important book I read this year. Ksenia Anske has a clear voice, and I look forward to reading her other works. While I wouldn't recommend this book to everyone due to its rather tragic feel, anyone who reads it is going to be hit repeatedly. This is a book that makes you feel, and a damn good one at that.
Recently I read Irkadura by Ksenia Ankse. It's about a sixteen year old girl, mute from abuse, who has grown up in heartbreaking, unfortunate circumstances, and how she copes and tries for a better life.
Irkadura was well written, pain and heartache filling each page, the words dripping with sorrow and despair.
From beginning to end, you won't want to finish, but you won't be able to stop reading, either.
Irkadura is a spellbinding story. Irina's life is harsh and brutal. There are times when one wants to look away, to seek out a safer story. But Irina's story is hypnotic. In the end Irina is a compelling character. Highly recommended.
Irkadura is a dark, haunting book, startlingly graphic, unexpectedly moving; Ksenia Anske is a gifted writer with an imagination like no other. Once started I couldn’t put it down, I was propelled fast-forward on a hallucinogenic journey with 16-year-old Irina and the gang of bestial characters who inhabit her harum-scarum world.
Irina—Irkadura—is a damaged and self-damaging Russian teenager, filled with hatred for her family and all those who have abused her, and brimming with tender love for Pavlik, the beautiful, gay actor, the Butterfly, who has also been a victim of abuse.
Irina is mute, having taken refuge in silence from the age of two onwards. It’s the way she copes with the horrors she has suffered. The other way is to envision everyone, herself included, as an animal or a bird or a fish or a reptile. Irina the little Mouse is pregnant, and tiny Eaglet in her belly provides the focus of the story, the lifeline to a possible future of happiness with the Butterfly…
Irina’s fantasies are more real to us than the realities of life in the toxic city that is Moscow in the early 1990s, after the break-up of the Soviet system, where the story is set a city of extremes, of opulence and abject poverty, a society torn apart by lethal factions - communists, nationalists, fascists, homophobics - in Irina's imagination a monstrous spider devouring its children. The city where Ksenia Anske grew up.
And after the awful mayhem and, yes, murder, we long for a happy ending, and no, we don't get one. Yet the ending is what it should be brave, heart-breaking, curiously upbeat. It haunts the imagination for long afterwards, as does everything about this book. I could say that it is a book about the links between child abuse and repressive societies, because Ksenia Anske's writing has depth to it, you can peel away the layers, but in truth it reads like a glorious, terrifying exorcism, and is all the more beautiful for it.
What a heartbreaking, poignant story.
Have you ever read a book that ended up being wonderful, even though the first chapter or so was boring, but you kept at it?
Great. Yeah. Irkadura isn't like that.
This story yanked me in from the first page and though I wanted to read it slowly, stretching it out, savoring little nibbles here and there...
I could not. I ate it up in one big gulp.
From the first mention, I was so worried for the eaglet. As I read, I thought I knew how I hoped it would end.
I was wrong.
I came to the last couple of pages and held my breath. I knew exactly what was going to happen.
The end was completely different than anything I could have imagined, but reading it, I realized it was the only right way for the story to finish.
The mouse and the eaglet. They held my heart, filled it to bursting with emotion, and ripped it open with a jagged knife.
Thank you. I loved it.
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