In store now! Ukraine Diaries: Dispatches from Kiev, by Andrey Kurkov
Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine is neither an isolated incident, nor a bolt from the blue, no matter how shocked and horrified the global community was once it began. No book makes this position clearer than Andrey Kurkov’s urgent and compelling Ukraine Diaries. Kurkov’s dispatches begin on the 21st of November, 2013, the day Ukraine suspended talks with the European Parliament. In the months that followed, Kurkov details the deterioration of the situation from his home in Kiev.
Although the book falls short of discussing the current invasion, Kurkov’s Ukraine Diaries is an essential piece of front-line journalism which details the context of the otherwise unfathomable position the people of Ukraine now find themselves in.
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Ukraine Diaries: Dispatches from Kiev by Andrey Kurkov
Paperback £12.99
-16 DegreesC, sunlight, silence. I drove the children to school, then went to see the revolution.
I walked between the tents. Talked with rev olutionaries. They were weary today.
The air was thick with the smell of old campfires. Ukraine Diaries is acclaimed writer Andrey Kurkov's first-hand account of the ongoing crisis in his country. From his flat in Kyiv, just five hundred yards from Independence Square, Kurkov can smell the burning barricades and hear the sounds of grenades and gunshot.
Kurkov's diaries begin on the first day of the pro-European protests in November 2013, and describe the violent clashes in the Maidan, the impeachment of Yanukovcyh, Russia's annexation of Crimea and the separatist uprisings in the east of Ukraine. Going beyond the headlines, they give vivid insight into what it's like to live through - and try to make sense of - times of intense political unrest, on the path to the current crisis.
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