{"product_id":"ukraine-war-love-a-donetsk-diary","title":"Ukraine, War, Love: A Donetsk Diary","description":"\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, humor, and love. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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. Vignettes 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. Olena 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.","brand":"Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51947323359463,"sku":"9780674291706","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0449\/4075\/5096\/files\/imageloader_42920999-24ce-4104-ba39-b005b86a593a.jpg?v=1775486883","url":"https:\/\/arvidabookco.com\/products\/ukraine-war-love-a-donetsk-diary","provider":"Arvida Book Co.","version":"1.0","type":"link"}