Diary of an Invasion

By Andrey Kurkov Winner of the NBCC Gregg Barrios Book in Translation Prize for Grey Bees 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. Publication Date: April 4, 2023 Hardback: 9781646052813Paperback: 9781646054268eBook: 9781646052820 Available in paperback: April 28th, 2026 Description This journal of the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022, 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, in which only two villagers remain in a village bombed to smithereens, is a dark foreshadowing of the devastation in the eastern part of Ukraine.  The author has lived in Kyiv and