Ukraine, War, Love: A Donetsk Diary (Harvard Library of Ukrainian Literature) - Hardcover

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Stiazhkina, Olena

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9780674291690: Ukraine, War, Love: A Donetsk Diary (Harvard Library of Ukrainian Literature)
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ISBN 10: 0674291697 ISBN 13: 9780674291690
Publisher: Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute, 2024

Synopsis

In Ukraine, War, Love, Olena Stiazhkina depicts day-to-day developments in and around her beloved hometown Donetsk during Russia’s 2014 invasion and occupation of the Ukrainian city. An award-winning fiction writer, Stiazhkina chronicles an increasingly harrowing series of events with sarcasm, anger, humor, and love.

The diary opens on March 2, 2014, as the first wave of pro-Russian protest washes over eastern Ukraine in the wake of Euromaidan, the Revolution of Dignity, and it closes on August 18, 2014, the day a convoy of civilian Ukrainian refugees is deliberately slaughtered by Russian forces. Early on, Stiazhkina is captured by pro-Russian forces while she browses for books but is freed when one of her captors turns out to be a former student. Vignettes from her personal life intermingle with current events, and she examines ordinary people in extraordinary circumstances. We walk with local dogs and their owners; we meet a formidable apartment building manager who shames occupiers and dismantles their artillery from the roof of her building; we follow a family evacuated to Kyiv whose young son builds checkpoints out of Legos. Olena Stiazhkina’s Ukraine, War, Love: A Donetsk Diary is a fierce love letter to her country, her city, and her people.

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About the Authors

Olena Stiazhkina is a historian and award-winning Ukrainian writer and journalist. Her fiction, under the pen name Olena Iurska, includes short stories, novels, and detective stories. She was a professor of Slavic history at Donetsk National University until the occupation of the city, as well as at Mariupol State University. Having written almost exclusively in Russian before, Stiazhkina transitioned to writing in Ukrainian following the Russian aggression against Ukraine in 2014.

Anne O. Fisher is Senior Lecturer in Translation and Interpreting Studies at the University of Wisconsin―Milwaukee and a past president of the American Literary Translators Association.

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Publisher
Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute
Publication date
2024
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0674291697
ISBN 13 
9780674291690
Binding
Hardcover
Number of pages
296
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