Stalking the Atomic City Life Among the Decadent and the Depraved of Chornobyl
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Markiyan Kamysh is a Ukrainian writer who represents the Chornobyl underground in literature. Since 2010, he has illegally explored the Chornobyl Exclusion Zone. He is the son of a Chornobyl liquidator, nuclear physicist and design engineer of the Institute for Nuclear Research in Kyiv who died in 2003. Stalking the Atomic City, his first book, has been translated into multiple languages and published to great acclaim. He lives in Kyiv, Ukraine. See more photos on his Instagram @markiyankamysh.A gonzo account of life as a "stalker"-a shadowy thrill-seeker haunting the Chornobyl exclusion zone after dark, sneaking past the guards and scaling radio masts. Kamysh's throbbing, fragmentary prose offers heart-stopping insight into what drives those who choose to trespass in dangerous places: reckless abandon in abandoned places
- Cal Flyn, author of Islands of Abandonment,
Stalking the Atomic City is a brilliant, angry, witty, passionate book about the end of the future and what happens afterwards - Tarkovsky meets Hunter S. Thompson. Read it
- Kevin Power, author of White City,
Kamysh has made us understand why he thinks the zone around Chornobyl is so special, why - because of its desolate serenity, and the freedom it grants from the strictures of normal life - it may even be worth dying for. No mean feat... Remarkable
Guardian
An existential travel guide and an experiment in gonzo psychogeography, it stirs obvious comparisons with Hunter S Thompson... mesmerising
Telegraph
A poetic rush to madness... shockingly real, recounted in a stunning, original voice as lyrical as it is unnerving
- Alan Weisman, author of The World Without Us,
Stark, surreal... A visceral, graphic report from dystopia
Kirkus Reviews
A fantastic account of the reality of disaster... A true backpacker's guide for disaster tourists
L'Humanité
In the shadow of catastrophe, Markiyan Kamysh writes with all of youth's wayward lyricism, like a nuclear Kerouac
- Rob Doyle, author of Threshold,
A voice that must be heard
- Patti Smith (via Instagram),
A hypnotic work of impressions, facts and photographs, documenting Kamysh's decade underground. Its timing could not be more pertinent
Irish Times
An intimate, lived-in account of a ruined landscape and the people who find themselves drawn to it... a haunting, immersive read
Words Without Borders
Grimly fascinating insights... a memorable read
Independent
An extraordinary window on Chernobyl
New Scientist
Blunt, bare, ecstatic... [Stalking the Atomic City] has a rare quality of revelation about it and hums with a kind of exhaustedly beautiful intensity.
Quietus