I Love Russia: Reporting from a Lost Country

Format: Hardcover Language: English ISBN: 0593655265 ISBN13: 9780593655269 Release Date: October 2023 Publisher: Penguin Press Length: 384 Pages Weight: 2.95 lbs. Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.1" x 9.3" * Named a Best Book of the Year by The New Yorker and TIME * Winner of the Pushkin House Book Prize * A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice * "A haunting book of rare courage." --Clarissa Ward, CNN chief international correspondent and author of On All Fronts To be a journalist is to tell the truth. I Love Russia is Elena Kostyuchenko's unrelenting attempt to document her country as experienced by those whom it systematically and brutally erases: village girls recruited into sex work, queer people in the outer provinces, patients and doctors at a Ukrainian maternity ward, and reporters like herself. Here is Russia as it is, not as we imagine it. The result is a singular portrait of a nation, and of a young woman who refuses to be silenced. In March 2022, as a corres