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Ukraine Diaries

Dispatches From Kiev

Andrey Kurkov

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From the Maidan Uprising to the Russian annexation of Crimea in 2014, writer Andrey Kurkov takes us through the streets of Kyiv and across Ukraine to give us a thoughtful, nuanced perspective the effect of Russian interference and intimidation on daily life throughout the country as well as his own reflections on the history and politics of the relationship between Russia and Ukraine. Clear-sighted but never entirely without hope, this is a great book for anyone wishing to understand the events that have led to the current Russian invasion of Ukraine and Ukraine's continued fight for a free future.

Acclaimed author Andrey Kurkov gives powerful insight into life in Kyiv following the 2013 protests and before the 2022 Russian invasion.

-16°C, sunlight, silence. I drove the children to school, then went to see the revolution. I walked between the tents. Talked with rev­olutionaries. 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 Yanukovych, 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.

Translated by Sam Taylor
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
Binding: Paperback
Publication date: 31 Jul 2014
Dimensions: 198 x 132 x 20 mm
ISBN: 9781846559471