OUR DAILY WAR (UKRAINE) (HB)

In this second volume of his acclaimed war diaries, Ukraine’s greatest living writer bears witness to a nation enduring the unendurable. From his home in Kyiv, Kurkov captures the surreal and the life-shattering: children learning algebra in metro stations turned bomb shelters, holidaymakers sunbathing on mined beaches, and farmers sowing fields shadowed by missile strikes. This is a lived account – rich with startling vignettes, dark humour and devastating detail – of a country adapting, resisting, surviving. Kurkov at his most intimate and insightful.