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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Belorusets, Yevgenia, author.
Imprint:	New York : New Directions Publishing Corporation ; [Place of publication not identified] isolarii, 2023. ©2023
Description:	137 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Language:	English
Subject:	Belorusets, Yevgenia -- Diaries. Journalists -- Ukraine -- Kyïv -- Biography. Journalists. Ukraine -- History -- Russian Invasion, 2022- -- Personal narratives. Kyïv (Ukraine) -- History -- 21st century. Kyïv (Ukraine) -- Biography. Ukraine. Ukraine -- Kyïv. Biography. Biographies. Diaries. History. Personal narratives. Diaries. Personal narratives.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/13015372

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Other authors / contributors:	Nissan, Greg, translator.
ISBN:	9780811234801 0811234800 9780811234818
Notes:	New Directions Paperbook NDP1553 In English, translated from German.
Summary:	"The young artist and writer Yevgenia Belorusets was in her hometown of Kyiv when Putin's "special military operation" against Ukraine began on the morning of February 24, 2022. With the shelling of Kyiv, Kharkiv, Odessa, and Kherson, the war with Russia had clearly, irreversibly begun: "I thought, this has been allowed to happen, it is a crime against everything human, against a great common space where we live and hope for a future." With power and clarity, the War Diary of Yevgenia Belorusets documents the long beginning of the devastation and its effects on the ordinary residents of Ukraine; what it feels like to interact with the strangers who suddenly become your "countrymen"; the struggle to make sense of a good mood on a spring day; the new danger of a routine coffee run. First published in the German newspaper Der Spiegel and then translated and released each day on the site ISOLARII (and on Artforum), the War Diary had an immediate impact worldwide: it was translated by an anonymous collective of writers on Weibo; read live by Margaret Atwood on International Women's Day; adapted for an episode of This American Life on NPR; and brought to the 2022 Venice Biennale by President Zelensky as part of the pavilion "This is Ukraine: Defending Freedom.""--

Table of Contents:

Preface
Day
1. Thurs., Feb. 24 The Beginning
2. Fri., Feb. 25 Air Raids
Tense Silence
3. Sat., Feb. 26 Bomb Shelter
4. Sun., Feb. 27 An Extinguished City
5. Mon., Feb. 28 Our New Vulnerability
6. Tues., March 1 Not a Minute More of This War!
7. Wed., March 2 Time to Be Brave
8. Thurs., March 3 Alienation
9. Fri., March 4 "Follow me on Instagram"
10. Sat,, March 5 "A great beauty"
11. Sun., March 6 "It's 3:30 p.m. and we're still alive"
12. Mon., March 7 A Way of Life That Swallows Up Everything
13. Tues., March 8 "The night is still young"
14. Wed., March 9 A Blemish in the Landscape
15. Thurs., March 10 Illusions
16. Fri., March 11 Music
17. Sat., March 12 Too Tired for the Shelter
18. Sun., March 13 An Unexpected Gift
19. Mon., March 14 Rockets over Kyiv
20. Tues., March 15 In War, One Thinks Almost Only of War
21. Wed., March 16 Tactical Retreat
23. Fri., March 18 The Picture of the Man with the Cat
24. Sat., March 19 Deceptive Illusion
25. Sun., March 20 Drones over Kyiv
26. Mon., March 21 "Kyiv will be as clean as Berlin!"
27. Tues., March 22 The Houses That Disappeared