The tenderness of life...

"[...] 

The tenderness of life is preserved on islands of temporary calm. And today I find that a rather daring, albeit inexplicable, thought. [...] "

Excerpt from the war diary of
Yevgenia Belorusets, www.isolarii.com/kyiv: Islands of Temporary Calm, Tuesday, March 29, day 34

'Yevgenia Belorusets has been one of the great documentarians of Russia’s war against Ukraine since 2014, winning the International Literature Prize for her work. Her diary provides the news from a different vantage.' 

German (Der Spiegel)

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