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The easiest thing to do in times of war is to hate others. The hardest thing is to reach an understanding. Even with your own. But we must try, otherwise the war will never end. And to reach an understanding, you need to talk. With anyone, in any way and about anything. The main thing is not to lose humanity, that is, love and attention.

In the poetry collection «Life of Maria», Serhiy Zhadan talks about the most precious letters and burnt bridges, lost places and destroyed cities. He speaks in rhymed verse and couplets, in his own and translated words. It speaks to its own and strangers, to saints and not so saints, to dead soldiers and living refugees, to Rilke, Milosz and, of course, to us. To save us - if not us, then at least our children.