Life in Spite of Everything: Tales from the Ukrainian East by Victoria Donovan games winner of the T

winner of the T

humanity and the earth itself will perish

But above all else

Wrongly accused of theft and exiled from a religious community many years before

Life in Spite of Everything: Tales from the Ukrainian East by Victoria Donovan games winner of the TA cultural portrait of eastern Ukraine, and an urgent, essential read. Since the start of Russias war against Ukraine in 2014, its eastern region Donbas has been synonymous with conflict. With the escalation of that war in 2022, its cities such as Bakhmut and Lysychansk have become familiar to us through the images and reports of brutal devastation. Victoria Donovan excavates a rich, multicultural history of this area, and paints a radically different