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Book 1. The Longest Journey

What is left for a writer when the war pulls him out of his office and takes him into the air, into a foreign country, into the through "nowhere" between heaven and earth, putting him on pause? Memory. Language. A stockpile of untold stories.

In her new essay, written for a Western audience, Oksana Zabuzhko examines the origins of today's Russian-Ukrainian war in two time dimensions - the thirtieth and the three hundredth - interspersed with her own memories of how the incalculable sum of human wills can change the course of history.

Book 2. Nothing

Full of dreams and hopes, with an old suitcase in her hand, eighteen-year-old Andrea arrives in Barcelona from the provinces to study at university and settles in with her late mother's family. The civil war has left her once wealthy relatives in a state of decline, and they are now struggling to make ends meet. Their old house is a kind of museum, holding not only unnecessary junk and old furniture, but also the ghosts of its inhabitants' past, their unfulfilled hopes, unspoken words and conceived anger. And while the inquisitive Andrea explores the streets of Barcelona and builds the first real friendship in her life, the house on Aribau Street lives its own separate life.