Apocalypse Baroque
Tales from Ukraine at War
Format:Hardback
Publisher:Extraordinary Books
Publishing:24th Sep '26
£12.99
This title is due to be published on 24th September, and will be despatched as soon as possible.
A radical reframing of Russia’s war on Ukraine
‘Apocalypse Baroque bears witness to a country on fire and a culture that fights against erasure. Crossing Ukraine in trains and volunteer cars, I have collected testimonies of everyday defiance that has surprised the world and, at times, Ukrainians themselves. A suitable language for relaying the atrocities we endure does not exist. I accept it, alongside the need to reach for a universal dimension in the singular horror of each act of Russian aggression. When reaching for the universal, one often taps into folklore. And once in the realm of folklore, one can read the old stories in a new way and make the reading emancipatory. In the sixteen tales that comprise this book, we meet characters from myth and legend next to my contemporaries and fellow citizens, united in a fight for justice.’
Sasha Dovzhyk
‘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 nonfiction tics and tricks … every page is infused with prose that grips your being in its entirety’
Maria Tumarkin, author of Axiomatic
‘Sasha Dovzhyk’s spellbinding, elegant book comes to us as a voice for a generation … she knows tales can save, and that 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