{"product_id":"our-daily-war","title":"Our Daily War","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAndrey 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.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘A vivid, moving and sometimes funny account of the reality of life during Russia''s invasion’ \u003cb\u003eMarc Bennetts, \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Times\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e‘Uplifting and utterly defiant’ \u003cb\u003eMatt Nixson, \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eDaily Express\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e‘No one with the slightest interest in this war, or the nation on which it is being waged, should fail to read Andrey Kurkov’ \u003cb\u003eDominic Lawson, \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eDaily Mail\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e____\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAndrey Kurkov’s war diaries continue: A profound and deeply personal chronicle of life under siege.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOn 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis 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: \u003ci\u003e“For Bakhmut”, \u003c\/i\u003ehe writes. The family of a journalist killed in the Donbas sells their home to open a bookshop in his memory.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eOur Daily War\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e_____\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePRAISE FOR ANDREY KURKOV’s WAR DIARIES\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘Clever, passionate’ \u003cb\u003eRoger Boyes, \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Times\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘Thoughtfulness nearly always prevails over anger; the pieces are flawlessly structured; the tone is devoid of self-pity’ \u003cb\u003eRobin Ashenden, \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eSpectator\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘Andrey Kurkov [is] one of the most articulate ambassadors to the West for the situation in his homeland’ \u003cb\u003eSam Leith, \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eSpectator\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘Immediate and important. . . An insider''s account of how an ordinary life became extraordinary. It is also about survival, hope and humanity’\u003cb\u003e Helen Davies,\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003e Sunday Times\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e‘Packed with surprising details about the human effects of the Russian assault … genial but also impassioned, never more so than when deploring Putin''s efforts to erase Ukrainian culture and history’ \u003cb\u003eBlake Morrison, \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eGuardian\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e‘A thoughtful and humane memoir by one of Ukraine''s most prominent living authors’ \u003cb\u003eSimon Caterson, \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eSydney Morning Herald\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e‘Kurkov''s diaries … make the early days of the war vivid for the reader. … Here are the kind of stories you don''t see on the television news’ \u003cb\u003eRachel Cooke, \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eObserver\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e‘It is little wonder … Kurkov, known for his keen eye for the absurdities of life, would pack his diary of the war with fascinating and eccentric details’\u003cb\u003eMegan Gibson, \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eNew Statesman\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e‘Kurkov, an internationally-lauded novelist, is strongest when he writes on cultural matters. 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