Szergej Geraszimov - Harkivi diary

Writer Sergey Gerasimov was hit by the "special military operation" ordered by Vladimir Putin on February 24, 2022, or in simpler terms: the war, in his hometown of Kharkiv, which is only forty kilometers from the Russian border.
In his notes, Gerasimov brings to life the hellish everyday life of a city hit by continuous bombings and sniper fire, where "living" mostly means "surviving" with ruthless honesty, and not shying away from some - dark humor appropriate to the state of siege. His book is an important eyewitness account of the invasion of Ukraine, which goes well beyond the harrowing documentation of wartime devastation - a collection of thought-provoking essays on, among other things, the propaganda in preparation for armed conflict, the unbreakable ties and long-standing tensions between the Ukrainian and Russian nations, and why there is no solution to nationalism against Putinism.
The Harkivi diary is essential reading in order to have a more accurate picture of the madness that shook the whole world, the biggest military conflict in Europe since the Second World War.

SERGEJ GERASZIMOV was born in 1964 in Kharkiv, writer, poet and translator. He earned a degree in theoretical physics at the Harkivi State University, and later began to work in psychology, publishing numerous academic articles on the topic of cognitive functioning. Through psychology, he came to popular literature as a special object and phenomenon of human curiosity, and began writing fantasy and science fiction stories himself.
His works were previously published by major Russian book publishers such as ASZT and Eksmo - however, the publication of his large-scale magical realist novel focusing on the 20th century history of Ukraine and Russia and the errors of Marxism was prevented by the tense political situation. Several of his short stories and two novels can be read in English.
The Kharkiv Diary chronicles the first two months of the 2022 Russian military invasion.