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I LOVE RUSSIA - ELENA KOSTYUCHENKO KARTONIERT (TB)

'Would you like to know where Putin comes from? What the Russians are like today? And why? Read
this book' SVETLANA ALEXIEVICH 'Brilliant and immersive ... reportage at its brave and luminous
best' OBSERVER To be a journalist is to tell the truth. To be patriotic is to be critical 
honest  and fearless. I Love Russia takes us to places that non-Russians have never seen and
brings us voices we have never heard. It is Elena Kostyuchenko's courageous attempt to document
Russia as experienced by those whom it systematically and brutally erases: village girls
recruited into sex work  queer people in the outer provinces  patients and doc­tors at a
Ukrainian maternity ward  and reporters like herself. At once uncompromising and deeply humane
it stitches reportage and personal essays into a kaleidoscopic  often other-worldly journey.
Here is Russia as it is  not as we imagine it. I Love Russia may be the last work from her
homeland Kostyuchenko will publish for a long time - perhaps ever. She writes driven by the
conviction that the greatest form of love and patriotism is criticism. And because the threat
of Putin's Russia extends beyond herself  beyond Crimea  and beyond Ukraine. This is a singular
portrait of a nation  and of a woman who refuses to be silenced. 'Elena's bravery and reportage
are astonishing' CHRISTINA LAMB 'Kostyuchenko is an important guide to the twenty-first
century' TIMOTHY SNYDER *A SPECTATOR BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023*

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