Ragnarok

“Ragnarok”—a book from the series of ancient myths reinterpreted by modern writers from different countries, including Antonia Susan Byatt, Ali Smith, David Grossman, Su Tong, Olga Tokarczuk, Viktor Pelevin, and others.

A sharp, lyrical, autobiographical book about a five-year-old girl evacuated during World War II from London to the countryside. She worries about her father, a military pilot, whose fate is tragically unclear, and she reads a book of Scandinavian myths. Scary and at the same time poetic stories about the tree Yggdrasil, the wolf Fenrir, the snake Jörmungandr, and the cunning god Loki culminate in the myth of Ragnarok—the death of the gods. Only after a monstrous death and the destruction of the world can it begin anew.