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NO ONE TALKS ABOUT THE WAR is based on a series of everyday conversations, mainly between the author and people she meets, and occasionally conversations she overhears. It is written from an extraordinary place at a crucial inflection point-Ukraine in the middle of a protracted fight for its very existence. These conversations are tied together as a journey across Ukraine, taking us from its western regions, which enjoy an eerie and uneasy relative peace, to the war front, where life is measured in days and hours. The price of things, the right to language, suspicions about government, corruptions of history, paranoia, resignation, and the steadfast commitment to a dream or duty all factor into a gradual picture of a people with an uncertain future.