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Three Years On Fire

Three Years On Fire
  • Author(s): Andrey Kurkov
  • Location(s): Ukraine
  • Genre(s): Nonfiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

In this third volume of Andrey Kurkov’s war diaries, Ukraine’s greatest living writer chronicles the third year of the full-scale invasion from his home in Kyiv and from journeys all over the country – capturing moments of horror, resilience,...

Ukraine Diaries

Ukraine Diaries
  • Author(s): Andrey Kurkov, Sam Taylor (translator)
  • Location(s): Ukraine
  • Genre(s): Fiction, In Translation
  • Era(s): 2013 onwards

-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. Ukraine Diaries...

Wolves Eat Dogs

Wolves Eat Dogs
  • Author(s): Martin Cruz Smith
  • Location(s): Russia, Pripyat/Chernobyl
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): early 2000s

Chernobyl: the Zone of Exclusion. A ghostly place, deserted and forgotten for almost two decades; now inhabited by militia, shady scavengers, a few reckless scientists, and some elderly Ukrainian peasants . . . This is the eerie and dangerous...

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