Our Daily War - Couverture souple

Kurkov, Andrey

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1916788785 ISBN 13 : 9781916788787

Editeur : Open Borders Press, 2025

Synopsis

Andrey Kurkov's war diaries continue: A profound and deeply personal chronicle of life under siege.

In this second volume of his acclaimed war diaries, Ukraine's greatest living writer bears witness to a nation enduring the unendurable. From his home in Kyiv, Kurkov captures the surreal and the life-shattering: children learning algebra in metro stations turned bomb shelters, holidaymakers sunbathing on mined beaches, and farmers sowing fields shadowed by missile strikes.

On its eastern borders, Ukrainian citizens are put into "filtration camps", en route to Russia... or to execution. To the north, Belarusian forces press refugees into service as mine detectors.

This is a lived account – rich with startling vignettes, dark humour and devastating detail – of a country adapting, resisting, surviving. A child downloads movies to a smartphone to watch during nightly power cuts. An elderly Japanese man feeds the hungry in Kharkiv. A soldier carefully rehomes a swarm of bees. A winemaker uses scrap wooden shell crates to package gift sets. A Ukrainian gunner inscribes messages on shells and rockets aimed for Russia: "For Bakhmut", he writes. The family of a journalist killed in the Donbas sells their home to open a bookshop in his memory.

Our Daily War is Kurkov at his most intimate and insightful: a record of resilience, heartbreak and fierce national pride. Urgent, humane, unforgettable, this is history as it happens, and as only Kurkov can write it.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Andrey Kurkov has, since the Russian invasion, become one of the leading sources of reliable information on what is happening in Ukraine. He has travelled far and wide to lecture on the state of his country and is now a crucial voice for his people: “Ukraine’s greatest novelist is fighting for his country,” according to Giles Harvey of the New York Times. Initially famous as the author of the comic masterpiece Death and the Penguin, Kurkov has now seen his books translated into more than 30 languages.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Open Borders Press
• Date d'édition: 2025
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1916788785
• ISBN 13: 9781916788787
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 368
• Coordonnées du fabricant: Simon & Schuster; casetta@mondadori.it; ; Via Mondadori 1,; Segrate Milano; 20090; Italie