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Evans is a wonderful writer and observer, a stylist as elegant and gloriously free-wheeling as the late Jonathan Raban. Each paragraph has a lapidary charm. There is plenty of history too, effortlessly told. -- Luke Harding * A 'sleeping beauty' soaked in blood * Evans' Odesa is a city both fragile and resilient, and has allure in every crack and corner...In his reflections, you sense the emotional toll of personal relationships as well as the increasingly toxic dynamic between Ukraine and Russia - and, equally striking, the fraught relationship Russians have with their own state. -- Francis Dearnley * A very loving letter to Odesa - once a poet's haven, now a Russian target. * Evans' book carefully splices together the personal and the political, and some of his most fascinating characters are still wrestling with the borders of their identities. -- Peter Pomerantsev * The battle for Odesa * ‘Julian Evan’s Undefeatable has a lust for life on its side from the very first page. This is a memoir brimming with emotion and good humour, even as Evans arrives back in Odesa...under bombardment.’  - Viv Groskop, The Financial Times  -- Viv Groskop

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Julian Evans grew up on Australia's east coast and then in the south London suburbs of the 1960s. In 1990 he left his job in London to island-hop across the Pacific Ocean by ship, small plane and boat, a journey that ended five months later at the US nuclear-missile test range on Kwajalein atoll. His latest book was the highly acclaimed, Semi-Invisible Man: the Life of Norman Lewis. As a journalist, he has been reporting on Ukraine for over twenty years.

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