В книге собраны записи, сделанные автором в Буче и в Киеве, начиная с февраля 2022 года.
"...The first rupture of war. You still don't understand, don't realize what war is. You still think it's a local event that will freeze in history, in your own memory, as a vivid episode that you can later recall as a tragicomic curiosity. You don't yet know that at this very moment your world has shattered into thousands of shapeless, ugly fragments. A person's world ceases to be a coherent story and falls apart into episodes — sometimes disjointed, random — in which old friends and acquaintances are often lost, but new shadows of a new reality appear.
Unfortunately, I have memories that I will probably never share, but these notes, written from memory, will remain with me. Here is the city of Bucha near Kyiv, under fire.
В оформлении книги использованы фотографии, сделанные самим автором. На обложке – след на асфальте, оставленный разрывом мины.
Александр Владимирович Моцар – украинский поэт и прозаик. Работал журналистом в различных периодических изданиях. Автор многочисленных публикаций в литературной периодике и нескольких книг.
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