Diary of an invasion / Andrey Kurkov.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kurkov, Andreĭ, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Authors--Ukraine--Kyïv--Biography.

Authors.

Kurkov, Andreĭ--Diaries.

Kurkov, Andreĭ.

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:

279 pages : map ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Dallas, Texas : Deep Vellum Publishing, [2022]

Summary:

"One of the most important Ukrainian voices throughout the Russian invasion, the author of Death and the Penguin and Grey Bees collects his searing dispatches from the heart of Kyiv. This journal of the invasion, a collection of Andrey Kurkov's writings and broadcasts from Kyiv, is a remarkable record of a brilliant writer at the forefront of a twenty-first-century war. Andrey Kurkov has been a consistent satirical commentator on his adopted country of Ukraine. His most recent work, Grey Bees, is a dark foreshadowing of the devastation in the eastern part of Ukraine, depicting the lives of the only two residents remaining in a village bombed to smithereens. The author has lived in Kyiv and in the remote countryside of Ukraine throughout the Russian invasion. He has also been able to fly to European capitals, where he has been working to raise money for charities and to address crowded halls. Kurkov has been asked to write for every English newspaper and to be interviewed all over Europe. He has become an important voice for his people. Kurkov sees every video and every posted message, and he spends the sleepless nights of continuous bombardment of his city delivering the truth about this invasion to the world"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

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01.03.22 "Don't Mention the War!"

01.05.22 Merry Christmas!

01.14.22 Ukrainian TV Series: Producers and Actors

01.15.22 January Evening by Candlelight

01.21.22 "Nothing Personal!"

01.28.22 Between Virus and War

01.30.22 Choosing Your Words, The Language Question in Ukraine

02.02.22 Reinventing History

02.11.22 Ukrainian Battlegrounds: The Street, the Library, and the Church

02.13.22 Everything Is Heating up, Including the Sauna

02.20.22 Culture Under Threat

02.23.22 Tension, but No Panic

02.24.22 Last Borscht in Kyiv

03.01.22 The Time Is Now

03.02.22 Remember Me with a Smile

03.03.22 Borders

03.05.22 How Long Is the Shadow of the Past?

03.06.22 Interview with a Cupof Coffee

03.08.22 Bread with Blood

03.09.22 A Country in Search of Safety

03.10.22 Is It a Good Time to Look Back?

03.13.22 Archaeology of War

03.15.22 "When I Cry, I Can't Speak"

03.16.22 Keeping Track and Staying Positive

03.23.22 Bills and Animals

03.24.22 Displaced Lives

03.28.22 Time to Sow Wheat

03.30.22 Bees and Books

04.06.22 About the War and "Dead" Books

04.13.22 Choosing a School for Your Child Has Just Got Harder

04.20.22 The Tale of Rooster Tosha and the War

04.21.22 Two Months of War: Looking Back and Thinking Ahead

04.25.22 Culture Goes Underground

04.26.22 Choosing the Lesser Evil?

04.29.22 Whose Side Are the Black Sea Dolphins on?

05.01.22 Ukrainian Culture at War

05.11.22 Tattoo Life in Someone Else's City and in Someone Else's Apartment

05.18.22 Will Zelensky Become a True Best-Selling Author?

05.23.22 Russian Shamans against Ukrainian Amulets

05.25.22 Who Is Afraid of Ukraine's Victory?

05.28.22 Gin without Tonic

06.12.22 A Ukrainian Princess and "Good Russians"

06.14.22 Selling a War

06.28.22 Everyone Is Looking for Blood

07.05.22 The Power of Thought

07.11.22 War, Cars, and the Summer.

Notes:

Includes index.

"First published in Great Britain in 2022 by Mountain Leopard Press, an imprint of Welbeck Publishing Group."

ISBN:

9781646052813

1646052811

OCLC:

1345214696

Publisher Number:

99993259188