Diary of an Invasion

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ANDREY KURKOV, the author of Death and the Penguin has been aconsistent satirical commentator on his adopted country of Ukraine.His most recent work, Grey Bees, is a dark foreshadowing of thedevastation in the eastern part of Ukraine in which only two villagersremain in a village bombed to smithereens. The author has lived in Kyiv and in the remote countryside of Ukrainethroughout the Russian invasion. He has also been able to fly toEuropean capitals where he has been working to raise money forcharities and to address crowded halls. Kurkov has been asked towrite for every English newspaper, as also to be interviewed all overEurope. He has become an important voice for his people. Kurkov sees every video and every posted message, and he spendsthe sleepless nights of continuous bombardment of his city deliveringthe truth about this invasion to the world.

Born near Leningrad in 1961, Andrey Kurkov was a journalist, prison warder, cameraman and screenplay-writer before he became well known as a novelist. He 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. He is also 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.

"Ukraine's greatest living novelist" Charlie Connelly, New EuropeanBooks of the Year Praise for Grey Bees "A latter-day Bulgakov . . . A Ukrainian Murakami" Phoebe Taplin,Guardian "A post-Soviet Kafka" Colin Freeman, Daily Telegraph "Strange and mesmerising . . . In spare prose, Ukraine's most famousnovelist unsparingly examines the inhuman confusions of our moderntimes" John Thornhill, Financial Times Praise for Death and The Penguin "A tragicomic masterpiece" Daily Telegraph "A black comedy of rare distinction" Spectator "A striking portrait of post-Soviet isolation . . . In this bleak morallandscape Kurkov manages to find ample refuge for his dark humour"New York Times