Apocalypse Baroque
Tales from Ukraine at War
Format:Hardback
Publisher:Extraordinary Books
Publishing:3rd Sep '26
£12.99
This title is due to be published on 3rd September, and will be despatched as soon as possible.
A genre-bending anti-memoir from inside Ukraine
In seventeen tales, Sasha Dovzhyk evokes and documents the lives of Ukrainians transformed by Russia’s war. She speaks with everyday citizens, from weavers making camouflage netting to librarians turned combatants, and documents the collapse of rural towns and the threat to Ukrainian traditions. Blending lived experience with the folklore of a culture under siege, Dovzhyk chronicles the war in Ukraine through the lens of fable, and asks with devastating clarity: when faced with brutality, what do we become?
‘Raging, tender and utterly singular, Sasha … fuses fairytales to memoir and passionate argument to create an extraordinary lightning bolt of a book’ Charlotte Higgins, The Guardian
‘Dovzhyk is fighting language in her book … fighting easy polemical highs, fighting readymade forms of witnessing and testifying, fighting the nonfiction tics and tricks, so as to approach Toni Morrison’s vision of language as “an act with consequences’’’ Maria Tumarkin, Axiomatic, Fitzcarraldo
‘Sasha Dovzhyk’s spellbinding, elegant book, comes to us as a voice for a generation … she knows tales can save, and words can ensure a people “is not destined to forgetfulness”’ Natalie Nougayrède, The Guardian
ISBN: 9781917569316
Dimensions: 198mm x 129mm x 12mm
Weight: 200g
128 pages