Diary of an Invasion

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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. I fear I will carry this war with me even if my wife and I some day go on holiday – to Montenegro or Turkey, as we once did. Certain politicians are very fond of commissioning new editions of history so that the history better fits their ideology and their ideological discourse. The author manages to tick pretty much all the boxes I would have been expecting from this book: it’s personal, while managing to stay factual, it transfers all the different ranges of emotions, while managing to also offer concise hard facts. 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.

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Actually, it is not really a ´diary´ in the traditional sense, but rather a collection of vignettes and writings to friends of things that interested Kurkov at the time and that he wants to tell you about. There is trauma of forced deportations of the Crimean Tartars which to this day informs their conduct. And he knows what’s coming will be bigger and worse, with “horrors that have no place in contemporary life”. I am willing her to emerge victorious from each new artillery duel and I would gladly support her quest to paint the self-propelled cannon pink all over – albeit after the war, of course. I don't know whether this is a sign of things to come – whether some of his future books will be in English.Even UK critics admit the former PM acted quickly and effectively in the wake of Russia's invasion on February 24 - sending weapons, ammunition and humanitarian aid, and sharing intelligence. I think this will not only be her biggest reward but will be the icing on the cake for all her TikTok followers. No electricity supply usually means a break in communication with the outside world - no Wi-Fi or T.

Diary of an Invasion — Mountain Leopard Press

I now understand very well that if Russia succeeds in seizing Ukraine, all the freedoms that the citizens of Ukraine are so used to will be lost, together with the independence of our state”, reflects Andrey Kurkov at some point in his “Diary of an Invasion”.In one diary entry, Kurkov credits Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s The Gulag Archipelago as the impetus for questioning both his own formal education as well as his grandfather’s stories of Soviet dominance. I was especially interested in reading his views on identity politics, role of language, historical trauma and erasure of culture.