{"product_id":"i-love-russia-reporting-from-a-lost-country-hardcover","title":"I Love Russia: Reporting from a Lost Country - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eElena Kostyuchenko\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eBela Shayevich\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator), \u003cb\u003eIlona Yazhbin Chavasse\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e* Named a Best Book of the Year by \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eTIME\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cb\u003e*\u003c\/b\u003e A \u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e Editors' Choice * \u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"A haunting book of rare courage.\" --Clarissa Ward, CNN chief international correspondent and author of \u003ci\u003eOn All Fronts\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eTo be a journalist is to tell the truth. \u003ci\u003eI Love Russia\u003c\/i\u003e is Elena Kostyuchenko's unrelenting attempt to document her country 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eHere is Russia as it is, not as we imagine it. The result is a singular portrait of a nation, and of a young woman who refuses to be silenced. In March 2022, as a correspondent for Russia's last free press, \u003ci\u003eNovaya Gazeta\u003c\/i\u003e, Kostyuchenko crossed the border into Ukraine to cover the war. It was her mission to ensure that Russians witnessed the horrors Putin was committing in their name. She filed her pieces knowing that should she return home, she would likely be prosecuted and sentenced to up to fifteen years in prison. Yet, driven by the conviction that the greatest form of love and patriotism is criticism, she continues to write. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eI Love Russia\u003c\/i\u003e stitches together reportage from the past fifteen years with personal essays, assembling a kaleidoscopic narrative that Kostyuchenko understands may be the last work from her homeland that she'll publish for a long time--perhaps ever. It exposes the inner workings of an entire nation as it descends into fascism and, inevitably, war. She writes because the threat of Putin's Russia extends beyond herself, beyond Crimea, and beyond Ukraine. We fail to understand it at our own peril.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eElena Kostyuchenko\u003c\/b\u003e was born in Yaroslavl, Russia in 1987. She began working as a journalist when she was fourteen, and spent seventeen years reporting for \u003ci\u003eNovaya Gazeta, \u003c\/i\u003eRussia's last major independent newspaper until it was shut down in the spring of 2022 in response to her reporting from Ukraine. She is the author of two books published in Russian, \u003ci\u003eUnwanted on Probation \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eWe Have to Live Here, \u003c\/i\u003eand the recipient of the European Press Prize, the Gerd Bucerius Award, and the Paul Klebnikov Prize. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eBela Shayevich\u003c\/b\u003e is a Soviet American writer and translator. She is best known for her translation of 2015 Nobel laureate Svetlana Alexievich's \u003ci\u003eSecondhand Time\u003c\/i\u003e, for which she was awarded the TA First Translation Prize. Her other translations include Yevgeny Zamyatin's \u003ci\u003eWe\u003c\/i\u003e and Vsevolod Nekrasov's \u003ci\u003eI Live I See\u003c\/i\u003e, which she cotranslated with Ainsley Morse. Her writing has appeared in \u003ci\u003en+1\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eJewish Currents\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eHarper's Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eIlona Yazhbin Chavasse\u003c\/b\u003e was born in Soviet Belarus. She has translated three novels by Yuri Rytkheu, including most recently \u003ci\u003eWhen the Whales Leave\u003c\/i\u003e, Aleksandr Skorobogatov's \u003ci\u003eRussian Gothic\u003c\/i\u003e, and Galina Scherbakova's short stories for the Dedalus anthology \u003ci\u003eSlav Sisters\u003c\/i\u003e, as well as \u003ci\u003eThe Village at the Edge of Noon\u003c\/i\u003e by Darya Bobyleva. 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