-16 C, sunlight, silence.
Kurkov\'.
From his flat in Kiev, just five hundred yards from Independence Square, Kurkov can smell the burning barricades and hear the sounds of grenades and gunshot.
Ukraine Diaries is acclaimed writer Andrey Kurkov\'s first-hand account of the ongoing crisis in his country.
The air was thick with the smell of old campfires.
They were weary today.
Talked with rev-olutionaries.
I walked between the tents.
I drove the children to school, then went to see the revolution. -16 C, sunlight, silence