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From love and marriage to the front line of Russia’s invasion, a profoundly personal story of the city of Odesa and the emotional impacts of Putin’s ten-year war.
From love and marriage to the front line of Russia’s invasion, a profoundly personal story of the city of Odesa and the emotional impacts of Putin’s ten-year war.
‘Julian Evan’s Undefeatable has a lust for life on its side from the very first page. This is a memoir brimming with emotion and good humour, even as Evans arrives back in Odesa...under bombardment.’
‘Evans’s book skilfully splices together the personal and the political, and some of his most fascinating characters are still wrestling with the borders of their identities.’
‘Evans is a wonderful writer and observer, a stylist as elegant and gloriously free-wheeling as the late Jonathan Raban.
‘A vivid snapshot of a wretched situation’
‘Evans’s new book is a brilliant portrait ofa country and a city now under Russianattack....Each paragraph has a lapidarycharm.’
‘In his reflections, you sense the emotional toll of personal relationships as well as the increasingly toxic dynamic between Ukraine and Russia – and, equally striking, the fraught relationship Russians have with their own state.’
‘This is an important book, not just an eyewitness account of a country besieged, but a chronicle of the war, with helpful background both literary and political. Its great achievement is presenting its human face – resolute and heroic’
‘Wry, unsparing and lyrical; scattered with bright evocations of a country striving, against the odds, to be’
‘Macabre, surreal, haunting, beautifully observed and darkly moving’
‘Julian Evans’ love letter to Odesa is as beguiling as the city itself. In lyrical prose he interweaves history and literature with an account of his three-decades long relationship with the city, mounting a passionate defence of Ukraine as it faces down Russia's imperial aggression’
‘Should be required reading. Undefeatable is simultaneously a work of literary art (it is beautifully written) and a superb introduction to what is happening in Ukraine now’
‘A beautiful portrait of a city and a nation in a time of peril’
‘A shimmering Black Sea tapestry’
'Undefeatable is an absolutely fascinating and absorbing memoir of one writer’s relationship with a city and its people. Powerful, cogent, humane and scarifying – Julian Evans has written a modern classic’
