These sheets from the children’s notebook are valuable as a fantastic force certificate of terrible events of yesterday, as the story of a person who existed inside a textbook of history, as a document that captured a ruthless picture of a child’s ruthless eye, as a miraculous note of a contemporary. But this is also an extremely talented and thoughtful narrative, in which the stories of growing up, love and death are intertwined. You can say – this is a “document of the era”, this is an “adventurous novel”, it is “military prose”, it is “the drama of growing up”, it is “love saga” … But all these definitions are not accurate: these pages that the value of individual human life is higher than any geopolitical considerations, national differences and global concepts, and love and will to life are stronger than the call of blood and ruptures of shells.
Polina Zherebtsova was born and grew up in Grozny. Her diaries cover childhood, adolescence and youth, which were three Chechen wars. Study, first love, quarrels with parents – that a sign …
Author
Zherebtsova Polina Viktorovna
Artist
Bondarenko Andrey
Publisher
Corpus, 2014
16+
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