you Hello and welcome to Meet the Writers, I'm Georgina Godwin.
Now we are in Charleston in South Carolina and there's a little bit of background noise that's
because we're sitting next to a beautiful swimming pool on a lovely,
lovely sunny day but there's a bit of traffic and a little bit of noise around us.
It is such a pleasure though to be reunited with today's guest.
We've spoken before but the world he now writes from has changed so profoundly that this feels like an entirely new conversation.
Over the past three years he's travelled across Ukraine and across the world observing,
listening and documenting with an honesty and clarity that have made in one of his country's defining voices.
His war diaries begin with our daily war capturing the first stretch of life after the full-scale invasion,
the shock, the dislocation and the strange persistence of routine.
Three years on fire moves into the third year of the conflict,
tracing everything from front-line journeys to surreal flashes of humour and the small rituals that allow people to endure.
And alongside, he's finally returned to fiction with the stolen heart.
And more we're going to hear all about it.
Andrei Kherkov, welcome to Meet the Writers.
Hello.
Since we last spoke, you've travelled widely across Ukraine and far beyond.
Where have these last three years carried you?
Geographically, geographically everywhere except maybe Japan, China.
But I went to India to talk about Ukraine.