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Biographical note
Olena Stiazhkina is a historian and award-winning Ukrainian writer and journalist. Her fiction, under the pen name Olena Iurska, includes short stories, novels, and detective stories. She was a professor of Slavic history at Donetsk National University until the occupation of the city, as well as at Mariupol State University. Having written almost exclusively in Russian before, Stiazhkina transitioned to writing in Ukrainian following the Russian aggression against Ukraine in 2014. Anne O. Fisher is Senior Lecturer in Translation and Interpreting Studies at the University of Wisconsin—Milwaukee and a past president of the American Literary Translators Association.One cannot overlook the eerie immediacy of [this book]. Despite its now historical setting, its carefully curated reflections resonate with today’s Ukraine, where eastern village after eastern village is pummeled by Russian missiles and drones…the book serves as a time capsule, documenting the human experience of individuals fighting for survival at a time when the eyes of the world are shifting elsewhere.
- Nicole Yurcaba, New Eastern Europe
A harrowing account of Russia’s 2014 takeover of the Ukrainian city of Donetsk…Filled with gut-wrenching anecdotes and rousing prose, this is an alarming look at the human toll of Russia’s ongoing attacks on Ukraine.
Publishers Weekly
While artfully presenting the author’s personal story of pain, grief, and loss…[this book] most significantly deepens our understanding of the complex, emotive, and dynamic relationship between motherhood, childhood, and conflict.
- Marnie Howlett, Civil Wars