Ada Wordsworth - Review of the Best Books of 2023 to Understand Ukrainian Resilience to Aggression

Ada Wordsworth is a writer from London with a focus on Ukraine and other areas which have suffered under Russian imperialism, particularly Uzbekistan. She is also the co-founder and director of KHARPP, a UK registered charity which supports reconstruction efforts in eastern Ukraine, particularly the Kharkiv region. She holds an undergraduate degree from UCL in Russian Studies, and an MSt in Slavonic Studies, specialising in Ukrainian, from Oxford University. She has been published in Granta, the NYRB, the LRB Blog, and 1843 among other publications.
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BOOKS REVIEWED IN THIS ARTICLE:
- The Russo-Ukrainian War (Penguin, £10.99) by Harvard historian Serhii Plokhy
- The War Came to Us (Bloomsbury, £20) a memoir by Christopher Miller, Ukraine correspondent for the Financial Times
- We Play On (Robinson, £22) by Andy Brassell
- Ukraine Is Not Dead Yet (Ibidem, £22) by Megan Buskey
- The Sky Above Kharkiv (Yale, £14.99) by Ukrainian novelist, poet, rock star, and volunteer Serhiy Zhadan
- Ukraine 22 (Penguin, £12.99) edited by Mark Andryczyk
- A Dictionary of Emotions in a Time of War (Egret, £24.99) edited by John Freedman
- A Small, Stubborn Town (Ithaka, £12.99), by British foreign correspondent Andrew Harding
- Nothing Bad Has Ever Happened: A Bouquet for Victoria Amelina (Arrowsmith Press) https://www.arrowsmithpress.com/preorder/nothing-bad-paperback
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When thinking about 2023’s books about Ukraine, it would be remiss not to mention Victoria Amelina, the Ukrainian novelist, poet and war-crimes investigator who was killed by a Russian rocket attack on a pizza restaurant in Kramatorsk this summer. While her book-length account of female resistance during the war – War and Justice Diary: Looking at Women Looking at War – will now never be completed, a short excerpt published online by the London Ukrainian Review, titled ‘The Shell Hole in the Fairy Tale’ is a hugely moving read. There are hopes that the unfinished remainder of War and Justice Diary will be published posthumously.
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KHARPP LINKS:
https://kharpp.com/how-to-donate/
https://kharpp.com/
https://www.instagram.com/kharpproject/
https://kharpp.substack.com/
https://twitter.com/padochka
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ARTICLES:
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/books/non-fiction/best-books-ukraine-russia-2023/
https://granta.com/soundscape-of-war/
https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2022/12/08/ukrainian-lessons-at-the-train-station-ada-wordsworth/
https://www.theoldie.co.uk/article/language-lessons-in-ukraine-ada-wordsworth
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TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND:
kharpp - Reconstruction project supporting communities in Kharkiv and Przemyśl
https://kharpp.com/

Save Ukraine
https://www.saveukraineua.org/

Superhumans - Hospital for war traumas
https://superhumans.com/en/

UNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukraine
https://unbroken.org.ua/

Come Back Alive
https://savelife.in.ua/en/

Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchen
https://wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraine

UNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyy
https://u24.gov.ua/

Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation
https://prytulafoundation.org

NOR DOG Animal Rescue
https://www.nor-dog.org/home/
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