metamorphesque's review
emotional
reflective
sad
medium-paced
4.0
- heartbreaking account of what war is for the people not on the front lines
- a tale of love and loss, the shitty eastern european bureacracy too that I have also had to deal with numerous times sjksjsk
- told by the sister of a soldier who dies on the frontline of the Ukraine-Russia war before 2022#
- no glorification, no pathos, just grief and a sister's love and confusion over losing her brother unexpectedly
- also about how fallen soldier were actually more than just soldiers; they are always only remembered as such, as fallen heroes who died for the greater good but that is not all they were - some were painters, some were writers, journalists, teachers etc.... this book reminds us all of that
- a perspective not from just one person, academic, woman, sister, but from the sizeable part of the Ukrainian nation
- picture of the Ukrainian society: volunteers, bystanders, soldiers, politicians
- a story of one family and the whole nation
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