{"product_id":"ukraine-war-love-by-olena-stiazhkina-9780674291706","title":"Ukraine, War, Love","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eUkraine, War, Love\u003c\/i\u003e, 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, humour, and love.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eVignettes 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eOlena Stiazhkina's \u003ci\u003eUkraine, War, Love: A Donetsk Diary\u003c\/i\u003e is a fierce love letter to her country, her city, and her people.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47000831394028,"sku":"9780674291706","price":40.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/1418943482428.jpg?v=1763308611","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.pro\/products\/ukraine-war-love-by-olena-stiazhkina-9780674291706","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}