OUR DAILY WAR

Andrey Kurkov s urgent humane and unforgettable war diaries continue in a poignant personal account of life under siege in Ukraine rich with humanity dark humour and unforgettable glimpses of resilience amidst devastation NEWLY UPDATED FOR PAPERBACK A vivid moving and sometimes funny account of the reality of life during Russia s invasion Marc Bennetts The Times Uplifting and utterly defiant Matt Nixson Daily Express No one with the slightest interest in this war or the nation on which it is being waged should fail to read Andrey Kurkov Dominic Lawson Daily Mail For centuries attempts have been made to force Ukrainians to forget their native language to stop singing Ukrainian songs and to abandon their history For almost 400 years Russia has been fighting against Ukrainian identity Andrey Kurkov s war diaries continue A profound and deeply personal chronicle of life under siege newly updated 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 sowin