Ukraine, War, Love: A Donetsk Diary (Harvard Library of Ukrainian Literature #7)

Synopsis

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.

Copyright:

2024

Book Details

Book Quality:

Publisher Quality

Book Size:

200 Pages

ISBN-13:

9780674291706

Related ISBNs:

9780674291690, 9780674291713

Publisher:

Harvard University Press

Date of Addition:

07/09/24

Copyrighted By:

the President and Fellows of Harvard College Translation and afterword copyright

Adult content:

No

Language:

English

Has Image Descriptions:

No

Categories:

History, Military, Literature and Fiction, Politics and Government

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Bookshare Staff

Usage Restrictions:

This is a copyrighted book.

Translator:

Anne O. Fisher