I Love Russia
Reporting from a Lost Country
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Tiana Yarik
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Brought to you by Penguin.
**WINNER OF THE PUSHKIN HOUSE BOOK PRIZE 2024**
To be a journalist is to tell the truth. Here is Russia as it really is.
Part memoir, part collection of Elena Kostyuchenko’s fearless reporting, I Love Russia 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.
The result is a singular, uncompromising, and profoundly humane portrait of a nation – and of an extraordinary woman who refuses to be silenced.
'Important ... this is the Russia we need to understand' TIMOTHY SNYDER
'A haunting book of rare courage' CLARISSA WARD
'Read this book' SVETLANA ALEXIVICH
'Shocking and moving ... [a] gritty insider's take on Russia' SUNDAY TIMES
'Reportage at its brave and luminous best' OBSERVER
'Deeply personal, beautifully written' IPAPER
*A SPECTATOR BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023*
©2023 Elena Kostyuchenko (P)2023 Penguin Audio
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- Alun Flynn
- 28-12-23
The shocking approach to people with learning difficulties in Russia
A detailed shocking analysis of life in Russia for most people but especially those with learning difficulties. Lack of humanity is revealed. The system has allowed this to happen despite international knowledge of equal rights.
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- Miss_Nessie
- 01-05-24
Problems with pacing, very annoying performance
Liked the description of state of affairs across Russia in time, but the pace was off. Lots of descriptions but no guiding voice throughout. Just telling people what she saw with very little context or opinions. I've expected much more.
The performance is just awful, so slow, the accent is weird and annoying. As a person who speaks Russian and lived in Russia for many years, I am familiar with Russian speakers' accents in English, but I would have preferred British narrator so that the narration does not detract from a text itself.
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