Diario de una invasión

On February 24, 2022, the Russian army invaded Ukraine and started a brutal war. In this essential book, Andréi Kurkov narrates the terrible impact of the conflict through a very personal chronicle, which is, at the same time, an amazing account of the territory. Diary of an Invasion explores the Ukrainian national identity through the stories of citizens, who resist together to defend the democratic, liberal and diverse state to which they belong. During the invasion, bread is baked in the rubble and shared among the people, the wounded are transferred to evacuation trains, old women escape from the now-occupied villages carrying their noisy roosters. And, despite all the difficulties, hope remains: children are still being born in besieged cities and farmers risk their lives to work a land littered with buried and unexploded explosives. In this moving account, Kurkov intertwines his personal experience with that of others displaced by war and the communities that have risked everything to care for them, as they wait, with unstoppable strength of spirit, to one day return home.