{"product_id":"i-love-russia-elena-kostyuchenko","title":"I Love Russia (Elena Kostyuchenko)","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e**WINNER OF THE PUSHKIN HOUSE BOOK PRIZE 2024**\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTo be a journalist is to tell the truth. Here is Russia as it really is.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Important ... this is the Russia we need to understand'\u003c\/b\u003e TIMOTHY SNYDER\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'A haunting book of rare courage'\u003c\/b\u003e CLARISSA WARD\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Read this book' \u003c\/b\u003eSVETLANA ALEXIVICH\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePart memoir, part collection of Elena Kostyuchenko's fearless reporting, \u003ci\u003eI Love Russia\u003c\/i\u003e introduces us to places we've never seen and to people who've been systematically, brutally erased from view by Putin's regime. We enter secretive state-run facilities for disabled people, abandoned buildings haunted by suicide and violence, and a schoolyard marked by unacknowledged massacre. We meet village girls recruited into sex work, queer people in the outer provinces, and patients and doctors on a Ukrainian maternity ward.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe result is a singular, uncompromising, and profoundly humane portrait of a nation - and of an extraordinary woman who refuses to be silenced.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Shocking and moving ... [a] gritty insider's take on Russia' \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eSUNDAY TIMES\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Reportage at its brave and luminous best' \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eOBSERVER\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Deeply personal, beautifully written'\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ci\u003eIPAPER\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e*A \u003ci\u003eSPECTATOR\u003c\/i\u003e BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023*\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003ch4\u003eAutorenportrait\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eELENA KOSTYUCHENKO \u003c\/b\u003ewas born in Yaroslavl, Russia, in 1987. She began working as a journalist when she was fourteen and spent seventeen years reporting for \u003ci\u003eNovaya Gazeta\u003c\/i\u003e, Russia's last major independent newspaper. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn March 2022 she crossed into Ukraine to cover the horrors committed in Russia's name; \u003ci\u003eNovaya Gazeta\u003c\/i\u003e was shut down in the spring of 2022 in response to her reporting. Returning home now would likely mean prosecution and up to fifteen years in prison.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eShe is also the author of two books published in Russian, \u003ci\u003eUnwanted on Probation \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eWe Have to Live Here\u003c\/i\u003e, and is the recipient of the European Press Prize, the Free Media Award, and the Paul Klebnikov Prize.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eIlona Chavasse \u003c\/b\u003ewas born in Belarus and, together with her family, emigrated to the United States in 1989. She has translated three novels by Yuri Rytkheu, including most recently \u003ci\u003eWhen the Whales Leave\u003c\/i\u003e, Aleksandr Skorobogatov's \u003ci\u003eRussian Gothic\u003c\/i\u003e, and Galina Scherbakova's short stories for the Dedalus anthology \u003ci\u003eSlav Sisters\u003c\/i\u003e, as well as \u003ci\u003eThe Village at the Edge of Noon \u003c\/i\u003eby Darya Bobyleva. She lives in London.\n\u003cb\u003eBela Shayevich\u003c\/b\u003e is a Soviet American writer and translator. She is best known for her translation of 2015 Nobel laureate Svetlana Alexievich's \u003ci\u003eSecondhand Time\u003c\/i\u003e, for which she was awarded the TA First Translation Prize. Her other translations include Yevgeny Zamyatin's \u003ci\u003eWe \u003c\/i\u003eand Vsevolod Nekrasov's \u003ci\u003eI Live I See\u003c\/i\u003e, which she cotranslated with Ainsley Morse. Her writing has appeared in \u003ci\u003en+1\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eJewish Currents\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eHarper's Magazine.\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003ch4\u003eWeitere Angaben\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eBuch (Paperback), B-format paperback, Englisch, 384 Seiten\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Weltbild.ch: Bücher \u0026 Outlet","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":65838309114205,"sku":"K097683333","price":11.8,"currency_code":"CHF","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0911\/8915\/0045\/files\/9768333300001A.jpg?v=1788749969","url":"https:\/\/weltbild.ch\/products\/i-love-russia-elena-kostyuchenko","provider":"Weltbild.ch Bücher \u0026 Outlet","version":"1.0","type":"link"}