Ukraine, War, Love : A Donetsk Diary Hardback
by Olena Stiazhkina
Part of the Harvard Library of Ukrainian Literature series
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In Ukraine, War, Love, Olena Stiazhkina depicts day-to-day developments in and around her beloved hometown Donetsk during Russia’s 2014 invasion and occupation of the Ukrainian city.
An award-winning fiction writer, Stiazhkina chronicles an increasingly harrowing series of events with sarcasm, anger, humor, and love. The diary opens on March 2, 2014, as the first wave of pro-Russian protest washes over eastern Ukraine in the wake of Euromaidan, the Revolution of Dignity, and it closes on August 18, 2014, the day a convoy of civilian Ukrainian refugees is deliberately slaughtered by Russian forces.
Early on, Stiazhkina is captured by pro-Russian forces while she browses for books but is freed when one of her captors turns out to be a former student.
Vignettes from her personal life intermingle with current events, and she examines ordinary people in extraordinary circumstances.
We walk with local dogs and their owners; we meet a formidable apartment building manager who shames occupiers and dismantles their artillery from the roof of her building; we follow a family evacuated to Kyiv whose young son builds checkpoints out of Legos.
Olena Stiazhkina’s Ukraine, War, Love: A Donetsk Diary is a fierce love letter to her country, her city, and her people.
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- Format:Hardback
- Pages:200 pages
- Publisher:Harvard University Press
- Publication Date:28/06/2024
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- ISBN:9780674291690
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Pre-Order
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:200 pages
- Publisher:Harvard University Press
- Publication Date:28/06/2024
- Category:
- ISBN:9780674291690
