War diary / Yevgenia Belorusets ; translated from the German by Greg Nissan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Belorusets, Yevgenia, author.

Contributor:

Nissan, Grace, translator.

Language:

English

German

Subjects (All):

Journalists--Ukraine--Kyïv--Biography.

Journalists.

Belorusets, Yevgenia--Diaries.

Belorusets, Yevgenia.

Ukraine--History--Russian Invasion, 2022---Personal narratives.

Ukraine.

Kyïv (Ukraine)--History--21st century.

Kyïv (Ukraine).

Kyïv (Ukraine)--Biography.

Ukraine--Kyïv.

Genre:

Biographies.

Diaries.

History.

Personal narratives.

Physical Description:

137 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : New Directions Publishing Corporation ; [Place of publication not identified] isolarii, 2023.

Language Note:

In English, translated from German.

Summary:

"The young artist and writer Yevgenia Belorusets was in her hometown of Kyiv when Putin's "special military operation" against Ukraine began on the morning of February 24, 2022. With the shelling of Kyiv, Kharkiv, Odessa, and Kherson, the war with Russia had clearly, irreversibly begun: "I thought, this has been allowed to happen, it is a crime against everything human, against a great common space where we live and hope for a future." With power and clarity, the War Diary of Yevgenia Belorusets documents the long beginning of the devastation and its effects on the ordinary residents of Ukraine; what it feels like to interact with the strangers who suddenly become your "countrymen"; the struggle to make sense of a good mood on a spring day; the new danger of a routine coffee run. First published in the German newspaper Der Spiegel and then translated and released each day on the site ISOLARII (and on Artforum), the War Diary had an immediate impact worldwide: it was translated by an anonymous collective of writers on Weibo; read live by Margaret Atwood on International Women's Day; adapted for an episode of This American Life on NPR; and brought to the 2022 Venice Biennale by President Zelensky as part of the pavilion "This is Ukraine: Defending Freedom.""-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: Day

1. Thurs., Feb. 24

The Beginning

2. Fri., Feb. 25

Air Raids

Tense Silence

3. Sat., Feb. 26

Bomb Shelter

4. Sun., Feb. 27

An Extinguished City

5. Mon., Feb. 28

Our New Vulnerability

6. Tues., March 1

Not A Minute More of This War!

7. Wed., March 2

Time to Be Brave

8. Thurs., March 3

Alienation

9. Fri., March 4

"Follow me on Instagram"

10. Sat., March 5

"A great beauty"

11. Sun., March 6

"It's y.30 p.m. and we're still alive"

12. Mon., March 7

A Way of Life That Swallows Up Everything

13. Tues., March 8

"The night is still young"

14. Wed., March 9

A Blemish in the Landscape

15. Thurs., March 10

Illusions

16. Fri., March 11

Music

17. Sat., March 12

Too Tired for the Shelter

18. Sun., March 13

An Unexpected Gift

19. Mon., March 14

Rockets over Kyiv

20. Tues., March 15

In War, One Thinks Almost Only of War

21. Wed., March 6

Tactical Retreat

23. Fri., March 18

The Picture of the Man with the Cat

24. Sat., March 19

Deceptive Illusion

25. Sun., March 20

Drones over Kyiv

26. Mon., March 21

"Kyiv will be as clean as Berlin!"

27. Tues., March 22

The Houses That Disappeared

28. Wed., March 23

"Risk of injury!"

29. Thurs., March 24

The Smell of Burning Forests

30. Fri., March 25

Here in Kyiv

31. Sat., March 26

A Gap in the Window

33. Mon., March 28

Endless Cannonades

34. Tues., March 29

Islands of Temporary Calm

35. Wed., March 30

In the Nerve Center of Catastrophe

37. Fri., April 1

A Changed City

38. Sat., April 2

Laughter Returns to Kyiv

39. Sun., April 3

A City Drou/ns in Blood

41. Tues., April 5

Kyiv

Warsaw

Berlin.

Notes:

New Directions Paperbook NDP1553

ISBN:

9780811234801

0811234800

OCLC:

1333268430

Publisher Number:

99993149988