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Writer Oleh Kostiuk has published his second book about the war with Russia, defining its genre as a "documentary anti-novel". Kostiuk's first book, a collection of short stories and essays titled Frontline, was published last spring. Two books in a row, with an interval of a year, can no longer be attributed to chance and the need to speak out. The war was a life-changing event that turned Kostiuk into a professional writer.

"Sorrow and Madness" was finished in 2021 and, therefore, tells the story of a war that has already passed, a "low-intensity conflict" that began in 2014 and turned into a fierce existential confrontation between democratic Ukraine and Nazi Russia on the night of 23-24 February 2022.