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" &ldquo,is is a voice that must be heard.&rdquo,&mdash,atti Smith &ldquo, poetic rush to madness. a stunning, original voice as lyrical as it is unnerving. &mdash,lan Weisman, author of The World Without Us and CountdownIn the shadow of catastrophe, Markiyan Kamysh writes with all of youth&rsquo, wayward lyricism, like a nuclear Kerouac. &mdash,ob Doyle, author of ThresholdA rare portrait of the dystopian reality of Chornobyl, Ukraine, as it was before the Russian occupation of 2022. Since the nuclear disaster in April 1986, Chornobyl remains a toxic, forbidden wasteland. As with all dangerous places, it attracts a wild assortment of adventurers who feel called to climb over the barbed wire illegally and witness the aftermath for themselves. Breaking the law here is a pilgrimage: a defiant, sacred experience. In Stalking the Atomic City , Kamysh tells us about thieves who hide in the abandoned buildings, the policemen who chase them, and the romantic utopists who have built families here, even as deadly toxic waste lingers in the buildings, playgrounds, and streams. The book is complete with stunning photographs that may well be the last images to capture Chornobyl&rsquo, desolate beauty since occupying Russian forces started to loot and destroy the site in March 2022. An extraordinary guide to this alien world many of us will never see, Kamysh&rsquo, singular prose that is both brash and bold, compared to Kerouac and gonzo journalists, captures the understated elegance and timeless significance of this dystopian reality."
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Biographisches: "Markiyan Kamysh is a Ukrainian writer who, since 2010, has illegally explored the Chornobyl Exclusion Zone and represents it in literature. He is the son of a Chornobyl liquidator who died in 2003. His first book, Stalking the Atomic City, was translated into multiple languages. ,ou can also follow Markiyan on Instagram, ,markiyankamysh. He lives in Kyiv." Rezension(2): "〈a href=http://www.publishersweekly.com target=blank〉〈img src=https://images.contentreserve.com/pw_logo.png alt=Publisher's Weekly border=0 /〉〈/a〉: January 10, 2022 Ukrainian novelist Kamysh makes his English-language debut with this evocative portrait of Chornobyl’s Exclusion Zone, the 1,000-square-mile site of the 1986 nuclear disaster, and the “illegal tourists” who explore it for days and weeks at a time. Mixing travelogue and reportage, Kamysh, whose father helped clear the site of contaminated debris, finds a stark metaphor for post-Soviet depravity in the derelict world he explores. He describes hiking 20 miles through waist-deep snow to climb 500-foot radar antennae,sleeping in an abandoned building near the rotting corpse of a wolf,being ambushed by police,and his “radiation fetishism” for contaminated graphite rods and “still glowing” liquidator’s helmets. He also makes bitter fun of “rich girls” who map “every nook of the terra incognita on Instagram” and foreigners who dress for January snowdrifts “in proper autumn camo with anti-mosquito mesh,” and draws vivid character sketches of squatters and looters such as Kolia America, who races around at night on a scooter looking for scrap metal. Though some of Kamysh’s stylistic mannerisms grate, he captures the zone’s strange mix of beauty and bleakness with precision. It’s a captivating study of “the most exotic place on Earth.” Photos." Rezension(3): "〈a href=http://www.kirkusreviews.com target=blank〉〈img src=https://images.contentreserve.com/kirkus_logo.png alt=Kirkus border=0 /〉〈/a〉: January 15, 2022 Confessions of a Zoneaholic. Ukrainian writer Kamysh makes his book debut with a raw account of his journeys as an illegal tourist--a stalker, a walker, a tracker, an idiot--in the Chornobyl Exclusion Zone, the bleak area surrounding the site of the 1986 disaster at a nuclear power plant in Ukraine. His father, a civil engineer, had been a liquidator at the site for six weeks, when you could still get fried by radiation. Now Kamysh, and those he guides, see the Zone as a destination for grungy adventures. In abandoned towns overtaken by desolation and death, they go to guzzle down cheap vodka, smash windows with empty bottles, curse way too loudly and do other things that distinguish living towns from dead ones. Kamysh paints a picture--and includes his own photographs--of a stark, surreal landscape: empty apartments where he finds syringes and dead animals (including the rotting corpse of a wolf),crumbling houses with moss-covered roofs,and bars where smugglers, looters, and border guards all booze together. Although he repeatedly vows never to step foot in the Zone again, he cannot resist its allure. He has gone to the Zone in the dead of winter, stomping into an endless blizzard, freezing through the night. We know how stupid our escapades are, Kamysh writes, but his own motivation is not merely to experience extreme tourism. He revels in a feeling of true alienation: treading unfamiliar paths and sinking into swamps without a compass or a map, looking up at the stars you know nothing about. In sparsely repopulated villages and secluded borderlands, following the paths of smugglers looking for scrap metal, Kamysh admits he is looking for something unattainable--an antidote, perhaps, to complacency and consumerism. Illegal tourists revive dead cities. They breathe life into the empty shells of fragile houses and make the Zone a place worth living for. Translators Leliv and Costigan-Humes capture Kamysh's angry, sometimes hauntingly rueful prose. A visceral, graphic report from dystopia. COPYRIGHT(2022) Kirkus Reviews, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. "
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