The Museum of Abandoned Secrets

The Museum of Abandoned Secrets (Ukrainian: Музей покинутих секретів) is a 2009 novel written by Oksana Zabuzhko. The novel, more than 800 pages long, spans six decades of contemporary Ukrainian history.[1]

Critics have compared the book to Thomas Mann's Buddenbrooks and works of Fyodor Dostoyevsky. The novel, Zabuzhko's third, is a modern multigenerational saga which covers the years 1940 to 2004, framed as investigations by a journalist, Daryna Hoshchynska, of historical events in western Ukraine including the Holodomor, the Ukrainian Insurgent Army, and later political changes, ending just before the Orange Revolution.[2][3]

The book won the 2010 award for best Ukrainian book, presented by Korrespondent magazine,[4] and the 2013 Angelus Central European Literature Award, presented by the City of Wroclaw.[5][6] Angelus jury president, Natalya Gorbanevskaya, described the book as a "book that weaves into one history and modernity, the book that features magic, love, betrayal, and death."[2]