Diary of an Invasion

By: Andrey Kurkov

Narrated by: David Aranovich

One of the most important Ukrainian voices throughout the Russian invasion, the author of Death and the Penguin and Grey Bees collects his searing dispatches from the heart of Kyiv.

This journal of the invasion, a collection of Andrey Kurkov's writings and broadcasts from Kyiv, is a remarkable record of a brilliant writer at the forefront of a twenty-first-century war. Andrey Kurkov has been a consistent satirical commentator on his adopted country of Ukraine. His most recent work, Grey Bees, is a dark foreshadowing of the devastation in the eastern part of Ukraine in which only two villagers remain in a village bombed to smithereens. The author has lived in Kyiv and in the remote countryside of Ukraine throughout the Russian invasion. He has also been able to fly to European capitals where he has been working to raise money for charities and to address crowded halls. Kurkov has been asked to write for every English newspaper, as also to be interviewed all over Europe. He has become an important voice for his people.

Kurkov sees every video and every posted message, and he spends the sleepless nights of continuous bombardment of his city delivering the truth about this invasion to the world.

©2022 Andrey Kurkov (P)2023 Tantor

Good information, Intolerable narrator.

Kurkov is a genius and his writing excellent. Sadly, the narrator destroys the story. He reads as if to small children, attempts (very poorly) some accents, doesn't understand dates and even reads "HR576" instead of 576 Hryvnia. He would do a good job reading a story book, but i couldn't tolerate listening (even for the excellent text) after the second chapter. Hoping for a new narrator!