The remarkable story of how Ukraine's cricketers helped the people around them to escape from Russia's invasion in 2022, including first-hand accounts of the war. When the invasion started, the cricketers were suddenly in a fight for their lives. As the team's India-born players led a mass evacuation from the shelling of Kharkiv, and their coach, a South African teacher, sheltered from the bombings in Kyiv in his bathtub, the squad's Ukrainian players took themselves to the front lines to defend their country. Meanwhile, some Ukrainian refugees began to play cricket in a park in southern Europe. As well as eyewitness accounts of the first days of the war in Kyiv and Kharkiv, and first-hand reports from the war zones in Bucha and Bakhmut, the book holds many light-hearted stories – from the players who had to be freed from a police cell before a game, to the biofuel developer who became Ukraine's first professional cricketer. It's a story of courage, determination and hope.

ジョナサン・キャンピオン著「Getting Out」は、ウクライナ侵攻の惨禍をクリケットという鏡に映し出した、稀有なノンフィクションです。凄惨な戦場の記録と、スポーツが育む連帯の対比が鮮烈で、多国籍な背景を持つ選手たちが競技を通じていかに人間の尊厳を死守したか。その多角的な視点は、単なる事実の羅列を超えた文学的な深遠さを湛えています。 本作を貫くのは、絶望の淵でも消えないユーモアと不屈の希望です。バットとボールを手に命を繋ぐ彼らの姿は、困難に抗う全ての人々への熱い賛歌となっています。戦火の中でこそ輝きを放つ「絆」の物語は、読者の魂を激しく揺さぶり、真の勇気とは何かを私たちに問い直させる、魂の傑作と言えるでしょう。