Summary
Sándor Jászberényi: Kintsugi
Kintsugi is the ancient Japanese art of patching broken, broken vessels with a mixture of lacquer and gold or silver powder. But in the subtext of this masterful craft is the acceptance of damage, scars, imperfections with which the main character ultimately continues to live. Suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder ("Twice in Ukraine, I found myself in the middle of mortar fire. Since then, if someone claps behind me, I throw myself on the ground wherever I happen to be."), he voluntarily checks himself into a psychiatric hospital for rehabilitation. Reflecting on the events of his own life, memories of the places and people he met in the Middle East and the Ukrainian front lines, he narrates the current planetary moment in an extremely convincing manner, and the stories of his colleagues undergoing treatment are woven into this fine network. of literature.
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