Ukraine Diaries

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<p><i>-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.</i> <i></i> <i>Ukraine Diaries</i>is acclaimed writer Andrey Kurkovs first-hand account of the ongoing crisis in his country. From his flat in Kiev, just five hundred yards from Independence Square, Kurkov can smell the burning barricades and hear the sounds of grenades and gunshot.</p><p>Kurkovs diaries begin on the first day of the pro-European protests in November, and describe the violent clashes in the Maidan, the impeachment of Yanukovcyh, Russias annexation of Crimea and the separatist uprisings in the east of Ukraine. Going beyond the headlines, they give vivid insight into what its like to live through and try to make sense of times of intense political unrest.</p>

Autorenportrait

<b>Andrey Kurkov</b>was born in St Petersburg in 1961. Having graduated from the Kiev Foreign Languages Institute, he worked for some time as a journalist, did his military service as a prison warder in Odessa, then became a writer of screenplays and author of critically acclaimed and popular novels, including the bestselling<i>Death and the Penguin</i>. Kurkov has long been a respected commentator on Ukraine for the worlds media, notably in the UK, France, Germany and the States.

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