Full Description
'This is the account we've been starved of: an insight into Ukraine from an authoritative British writer who has skin in the country's game. 'Odesa is my discovered heart,' confesses Julian Evans, who fell in love with a woman from this constantly beguiling Black Sea port and started a family there, 'the place that's given me what I need for more than twenty-five years.' An outsider turned insider, his deep personal involvement compelled him to the front line of an unprovoked war without precedent in Europe for nearly eighty years. His vivid, first-hand reportage shows how Odesa's story is inseparable from Ukraine's - and more than that, how it has become our story too.' Nicholas Shakespeare
Contents
Black and white
Chagall-like
London-Moldavanka
Odesa's people
Car lords
Orange sun
Ukrainian relations
Missile strike
Shell shock
Lovebombs
Solidarity dancing
Such a place really exists
Personal and political: an afterword
