Autor Sophie Pinkham

‘When I first lived in Ukraine, I was preoccupied with its ideas of the past and future. Once Maidan started, there was nothing but the present; every hour held the possibility of transformation, and of terrible violence…’After leaving university in…

After leaving university in 2004, the author moved to Siberia to volunteer for the Red Cross, tackling the rising AIDS crisis by folding origami tulips. In this book, she presents a multidimensional portrait of a period of tumultuous change, and of a…