The Uncommon Cure: A Novella and Three Stories, by T. Agvanian
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The past haunts you and the future terrifies you. What do you do, seek redemption, sink into madness, or eat? These stories follow the lives of women trying to find emotional peace through food, fantasy, or virtue. The urge for liberation from pain drives them to face conflicts arising from the desire for relief. Eva has been carrying a terrible secret from the Second World War in Ukraine. As she approaches the end of her life, she wishes to eat herself into a diabetic coma to escape the guilt. Unfortunately, her daughter-in-law feels it is her Hippocratic duty to save Eva from gastronomic excess. While each comes at the other from complex, very different life experiences, peaceful intentions inevitably end in war. Long ago, Sarah gave up living on the outside. Now in an attempt to insulate herself from painful events, she tries to dream an alternative reality into existence. After Magnolia commits the ultimate sin and realizes there will be no happy ending, she must somehow find clarity and peace. As a narrator of a sleepy American suburb comically recounts a squirrel’s demise, she soon discovers that the joke may be on her. The Uncommon Cure shares a novella and three short stories that intertwine the struggles of several female characters as they attempt to cure their ills with unorthodox solutions.
The Uncommon Cure: A Novella and Three Stories, by T. Agvanian- Amazon Sales Rank: #2288430 in Books
- Published on: 2015-09-30
- Released on: 2015-09-30
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 8.50" h x .45" w x 5.50" l, .52 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 180 pages
About the Author
T. Agvanian has always been interested in the history of World War II in Russia and other former Soviet Republics. She earned a degree in Russian Literature and History. She currently lives in Massachusetts with her family. This is her first book.
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0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. Love and Death in Agvanian`s inner and epic novel By Amazon Customer One of the main themes is the loss of love, first love as well as the complex love between parents and children. In this respect Eva the protagonist, cites often the reading of Turgeniev's "Fathers and Sons".Another theme is how Ukrainians in The Second World War were confronted with the implacable choice between two evils: the dictator Stalin who had condemned them to starvation or the German occupier. Whatever their choice, it would be the wrong one. In the novel several issues are treated: growing old, the inescapable tragedy of the past, the Plaisir, Chagrin d'amour", the sensual gluttony set on the same level as sensual physical love. The Novel also presents the "thanatos" or the desire for death when one is confronted with a further love loss. An opposite "coming of age" is described; the fact that Eva has become old, a "babuschka" is no guarantee of wisdom. Her life, seen backwards from the present, is represented as having brought almost no new revelations. In her flow of memories the most beautiful ones are those glancing in the light of eroticism and gluttony. Similar to Proust's "À la recherche" where the taste of Madeleine's biscuits bring the past back to life, so too for Eva is the taste of cinnamon.Style and Prose: Flowing, rich with nuances but never redundant.As in Faulkner there is no "omniscient narrator" but a poly-perspective of singular "personas". The author's use of frequent Russian words and sayings which are not devoid of a certain humoristic quality, reminds one of Nabokov. The sub-theme here is as in Elias Canetti the role of one's own mother language (Russian for Eva), which alone can express the most interior nuances. Agvanian's narration is lexically rich but never keen on stylish effects.Sometimes it appears even a-syntactic; a way effective in lighting up a commotion of feelings; a sort of "flow of consciousness" which resists simple syntax. Her strength is the description of feeling and moods: She is a master of minimalism when recounting tragic events described in spare outlines while the elaboration of suffering will be loaded on the reader himself, as in the last scene of the novel where the reader is overwhelmed by an empathy with Eva's existence. "The rest is silence".Munich, 2016
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. Thoughtful characters and stories grab your attention long after your finish reading them. By CToran Agvanian's stories are personal. Each character, even the minor ones, is fully created and lives in a specific time and place so particularly described that the reader finds it easy to connect with and care about the characters. In the novella (the longest story), "Sweet," it is obvious the author has researched the history of WWII in the Ukraine, and we find ourselves learning this history with a new set of eyes we lacked during our high school history classes. This history plays a main part in the story, itself. Agvanian uses the history to draw us further into the life of Eva, a grandmother who immigrated to the U.S. after the war and finds herself in a struggle with both her past and present in the guise of her daughter-in-law who is coping with her own tormented mysteries of childhood. Each woman has experienced an uncommon curative relationship with cinnamon that rather than draws them together, only tears them apart and brings Eva closer to the end of her life. I especially liked Agvanian's use of poetic imagery and writing in her descriptions of people and their unique stories. Her refusal to reveal all secrets to her readers is another strength of her writing, as she forces us to use our own imaginations to complete the details of the characters and their histories. If you like to ponder the meaning of the characters' lives in the books you read, you will find Agvanian's work deeply interesting and satisfying.
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. The wonderful novella “Sweet” in this collection is a droll look ... By J. Husband The wonderful novella “Sweet” in this collection is a droll look at wife/mother-in-law relations. In this case the wife Lavinia is a doctor and the mother-in-law Eva is cranky and quite ill with diabetes. They are vacationing together in a beach house with Lavinia’s husband and thirteen-year-old daughter Mercy. Mercy is fascinated with Eva’s past—as a young Russian girl during WWII Eva was sent to Germany to work in a factory. After the war, she was among the many displaced who made their way to America. Mercy asks about Eva’s parents and her two husbands and Eva is happy to reminisce with this endearing grand-daughter. The conflict comes at mealtime: Lavinia serves Eva a proper diabetic menu which leaves her hungry, longing for just a little something sweet. As it unfolds, the story is funny and touching by turns. Before the dramatic conclusion, readers get a chance to eavesdrop on the thoughts of all the adult characters. The other stories in this collection are short and pungent. Altogether a great read.
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