![The collage of the cover of Oleksandr Mykhed's "The Language of War" and the photo of Bucha, Ukraine on April 4, 2022.](https://assets.kyivindependent.com/content/images/2024/07/cover.jpg)
‘The Language of War’ searches for ways to talk meaningfully about Russian invasion
“How should I manage this anger? Or should I?” Ukrainian author Oleksandr Mykhed asks himself following the start of Russia’s all-out war. In his book “The Language of War,” the first major Ukrainian prose work published by a Penguin imprint, Mykhed recounts how the lives of Ukrainians were upended