Tulips and Ashes - by Iryna Kapitonova (Paperback)
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Highlights
- Embark on a raw and moving journey through a year in war-torn Ukraine with Iryna Kapitonova.
- Author(s): Iryna Kapitonova
- 390 Pages
- Biography + Autobiography, Personal Memoirs
Description
About the Book
A raw and moving year in war-torn Ukraine: the pain of loss, uncertainty, and evil. Yet celebration and even joy are found too. Experience faith, loss, and enduring hope in conflict's depths.
Book Synopsis
Embark on a raw and moving journey through a year in war-torn Ukraine with Iryna Kapitonova. Iryna invites you to join her in grappling with the pain of loss, uncertainty, and the terrible degradations of evil. As she chronicles her daily life in her beloved homeland of Ukraine, she also invites you to look for hope, to find reasons to celebrate, and to believe that a better day is coming.
Witness the depths of loss, uncertainty, and the resilience of the human spirit. Through the pages of her daily chronicle discover hope blooming amidst chaos and the unwavering strength that can be found in moments of despair. Join her in exploring the profound interplay between faith, loss, and the enduring pursuit of hope in the face of adversity.
As Iryna leads you through the first year of the 2022 war, you will find yourself alternately weeping and rejoicing, ever aware that war continues on. Join Iryna in bearing witness to the horrible and awesome potential of the human spirit.
Review Quotes
There is an urgency and honesty in these pages, that this war is not only about Ukraine, but the personal freedom of each of us. There is nothing fake here in Iryna's writing, only gut-wrenching honesty that draws out an emotional response.
Paul Willoughby
Author, Don't Waste Your Pain: The Journey from Brokenness to Wholeness
The vulnerability with which Iryna processes the whole gamut of human emotions which might be experienced within a single day, reminds us that by faith we can have an abundant life, even in the midst of war. I come full circle in my reading - the very act of planting tulips is an act of faith.
Miriam Charter, Ph.D.
Retired Professor, Trinity Evangelical Divinity School
It is important that we hear the stories of this time and remember, Iryna has written a book of the memories of an ordinary woman and her family, that will inspire us with their faith and remind us that there is hope - hope for victory, but more importantly, hope for peace.
Edgar C. Sherman
Retired Acting Dean, College of Humanities and International Studies, University of the Nations