Dinara Tengri

Full title: The Ukranian and Russian Notebooks: Life and Death under Soviet Rule Author/artist: Igort Publisher: Simon and Schuster Year of publishing: 2016 This book e-book was requested by me on NetGalley *** Written and illustrated by an award-winning artist and translated into English for the first time, Igort’s The Ukrainian and Russian Notebooks is a collection of two harrowing works of graphic nonfiction about life under Russian foreign rule. After spending two years in Ukraine and Russia, collecting the stories of the survivors and witnesses to Soviet rule, masterful Italian graphic novelist Igort was compelled to illuminate two shadowy moments in recent history: the Ukraine famine and the assassination of a Russian journalist. Now he brings those stories to new life with in-depth reporting and deep compassion. In The Russian Notebooks, Igort investigates the murder of award-winning journalist and human rights activist Anna Politkoyskaya. Anna spoke out frequent...

  Welcome to Thursday Quotables,  a weekly meme hosted by Bookshelf Fantasies . Every Thursday you can post a quote from a book that you're currently reading. It can be meaningful, funny, a real tearjerker or just something beautifully written. You decide. Click on the link above if you want to learn more. And we're moving on. From mind-boggling science fiction to heart-breaking reality. I had a dubious pleasure of reading The Ukranian and Russian Notebooks: Life and Death under Soviet Rule , a non-fiction graphic novel by the Italian artist Igort. It's a collection of stories told by survivors of Holodomor (the government-sanctioned famine) and the Communist oppression in Ukraine, as well as those who lived through the second Chechen war. The first story is that of Serafima Andreyevna, a woman who survived Holodomor when she was just a little girl: "... And there were some kids I played with there Yura, Misha and Kostya. They died one ...