Stalking the Atomic City
Life Among the Decadent and the Depraved of Chornobyl

"Smelly and sweaty, you arrive at the cold concrete high-rises in Prypyat, you break into an apartment, pick up the chairs lying around, drop down onto a couch, toss your backpack on the floor, and stare into space as your candle flickers orange. You make hot chocolate, go out onto the balcony, and......more

Markiyan Kamysh, the author of this unusual book, is the son of a nuclear physicist and design engineer who worked as one of the “liquidators” after the 1986 nuclear disaster at Chernobyl – or, to use the alternative name favoured by Kamysh – “Chornobyl”. Perhaps because of this personal connection,......more

Com'è Černobyl’ dopo Černobyl'? Cosa c'è al di là del filo spinato, nella zona inaccessibile dopo il disastro del 1986? "Per alcuni è il terribile ricordo di un'infanzia semidimenticata, di una felice giovinezza sovietica, in cui nel giro di pochi giorni la tua esistenza va a rotoli e tu e tutti i t......more

Stalking the Atomic City is Ukrainian writer, Markiyan Kamysh's, nihilistic reflection on life at the edge of the world and at the edge of reason. Kamysh is what is known as an "illegal tourist" or a "stalker," but not in any ordinary meaning of those words. The places Kamysh stalks are all within th......more