Our Daily War

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<p><b>Andrey Kurkov's urgent, humane and unforgettable war diaries continue in a poignant, personal account of life under siege in Ukraine - rich with humanity, dark humour, and unforgettable glimpses of resilience amidst devastation.</b></p><p>'A vivid, moving and sometimes funny account of the reality of life during Russia's invasion' <b>Marc Bennetts, </b><i><b>The Times</b></i><br><br>'Uplifting and utterly defiant' <b>Matt Nixson, </b><i><b>Daily Express</b></i><br><br>'No one with the slightest interest in this war, or the nation on which it is being waged, should fail to read Andrey Kurkov' <b>Dominic Lawson, </b><i><b>Daily Mail</b></i></p><p><b>____</b></p><p><b>Andrey Kurkov's war diaries continue: A profound and deeply personal chronicle of life under siege.</b></p><p>In this second volume of his acclaimed war diaries, Ukraine's greatest living writer bears witness to a nation enduring the unendurable. From his home in Kyiv, Kurkov captures the surreal and the life-shattering: children learning algebra in metro stations turned bomb shelters, holidaymakers sunbathing on mined beaches, and farmers sowing fields shadowed by missile strikes.</p><p>On its eastern borders, Ukrainian citizens are put into "filtration camps", en route to Russia ... or to execution. To the north, Belarusian forces press refugees into service as mine detectors.</p><p>This is a lived account - rich with startling vignettes, dark humour and devastating detail - of a country adapting, resisting, surviving. A child downloads movies to a smartphone to watch during nightly power cuts. An elderly Japanese man feeds the hungry in Kharkiv. A soldier carefully rehomes a swarm of bees. A winemaker uses scrap wooden shell crates to package gift sets. A Ukrainian gunner inscribes messages on shells and rockets aimed for Russia: <i>"For Bakhmut", </i>he writes. The family of a journalist killed in the Donbas sells their home to open a bookshop in his memory.</p><p><i>Our Daily War</i> is Kurkov

Artikeldetails

EAN

9781916788688

Sprache

Englisch

Einband / Art

Buch

Maße

223 x 141 x 37 mm

Erscheinungsjahr

2024

Verlag / Hersteller

Open Borders Press