Author: Kamysh, Markiyan
Ukraine
Published on 2 January 2025 by PUSHKIN PRESS in the United Kingdom.
Paperback | 160 pages
198 x 129 | 0g
'Remarkable' GUARDIAN
'Mesmerising' TELEGRAPH
'A voice that must be heard' PATTI SMITH
An exhilarating, immersive journey into the Exclusion Zone of Chornobyl with the disaffected adventurers who illegally stalk its ruins
Amidst the toxic desolation of the Chornobyl Exclusion Zone, a subculture has sprung up. They call themselves 'stalkers': wild adventurers who sneak past border controls to get lost in this apocalyptic environment of dense swampland and rusted ruins. Markiyan Kamysh is one, and here he takes us on a hallucinatory journey into an alien world.
With reckless energy, Kamysh tells of escapes from the police, hedonistic nights in bombed-out buildings and the spectral beauty that got him hooked on returning to the Zone. Brash, immersive and ecstatic, this is a singular document of a dystopian reality.
