A powerful record of the first four months of the Russian-Ukrainian war, this book is at once the testimony of one man entering a new reality as he writes and the story of a society unified in its fight for the right to exist.

Serhiy Zhadan is Ukraine's beloved literary and activist voice. He has received the Hannah Arendt Prize for Political Thought, the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade, and several international literature prizes. His previous books include Mesopotamia; The Orphanage; and What We Live For, What We Die For: Selected Poems. Zhadan lives in Kharkiv. Reilly Costigan-Humes and Isaac Stackhouse Wheeler translate contemporary Ukrainian literature.