Diary of an Invasion, Andrey Kurkov
Diary of an Invasion, Andrey Kurkov
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Diary of an Invasion

Author: Andrey Kurkov

Narrator: David Aranovich

Unabridged: 9 hr 18 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 05/30/2023


Synopsis

One of the most important Ukrainian voices throughout the Russian invasion, the author of Death and the Penguin and Grey Bees collects his searing dispatches from the heart of Kyiv.

This journal of the invasion, a collection of Andrey Kurkov's writings and broadcasts from Kyiv, is a remarkable record of a brilliant writer at the forefront of a twenty-first-century war. Andrey Kurkov has been a consistent satirical commentator on his adopted country of Ukraine. His most recent work, Grey Bees, is a dark foreshadowing of the devastation in the eastern part of Ukraine in which only two villagers remain in a village bombed to smithereens. The author has lived in Kyiv and in the remote countryside of Ukraine throughout the Russian invasion. He has also been able to fly to European capitals where he has been working to raise money for charities and to address crowded halls. Kurkov has been asked to write for every English newspaper, as also to be interviewed all over Europe. He has become an important voice for his people.

Kurkov sees every video and every posted message, and he spends the sleepless nights of continuous bombardment of his city delivering the truth about this invasion to the world.

About Andrey Kurkov

Born near Leningrad in 1961, Andrey Kurkov was a journalist, prison warder, camera-man, and screenplay-writer before he became well known as a novelist. He received "hundreds of rejections" and was a pioneer of self-publishing, selling more than 75,000 copies of his books in a single year. His novel Death and the Penguin, his first in English translation, became an international bestseller, translated into more than thirty languages. As well as writing fiction for adults and children, he has become known as a commentator and journalist on Ukraine for the international media. His work of reportage, Ukraine Diaries: Dispatches from Kiev, was published in 2014, followed by the novel The Bickford Fuse. He lives in Kiev with his British wife and their three children.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Wouter on January 17, 2024

The author describes how the illegal invasion of his homeland by Russia has changed his life and that of his friends , how being a refugee in your own country changes your thoughts and inner world. Apart from describing the absurdity of war, it is a testimony of and tribute to the courage and resili......more

Goodreads review by Vishy on July 28, 2023

I got 'Diary of an Invasion' by Andrey Kurkov as a present from one of my favourite friends. I loved all of Kurkov's books that I've read before and so was looking forward to reading this one. 'Diary of an Invasion' is Andrey Kurkov's diary written during the ongoing war in Ukraine. It starts a few m......more

Goodreads review by Nika on January 30, 2023

This book is an absolute must-read for anyone who would like to get a good overview of the first six months of the full scale war in Ukraine that was started by Russia on the 24th of February in 2022. The author manages to tick pretty much all the boxes I would have been expecting from this book: it......more

Goodreads review by Alexander on January 15, 2024

Auch bei Kurkow ist der Kriegsbeginn trotz aller Vorahnungen wie der Einschlag eines Kometen. Das komplette Leben wird auf den Kopf gestellt, es dauert Tage, die Flucht aus Kyjiw eingeschlossen, bis er feststellt, dass der Mensch sich auch auf diese Situation einstellen kann. Wie in allen Tagebücher......more

Goodreads review by Alessandro on March 06, 2023

Half diary, half essay collection. A fundamental read especially for those who have been following the invasion less closely. Worth noting that it's not a translation, but the author's own voice in English. It's important to listen and amplify Ukrainian voices. Слава Україні.......more