Grey Bees by Andrey Kurkov

Grey Bees by Andrey Kurkov is about life in a war zone, specifically the zone of Donbas which in 2014, lay between the Russian and Ukrainian fighting positions, and is known as the grey zone. A front line of 430 kilometres, in parts it is just a few hundred metres wide, in others it is kilometres wide. Most of the residents of the villages and towns that lie in the grey zone left at the start of the 2014 conflict, abandoning their homes, orchards and farms.

Grey Bees is set i...