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…Once upon a time, humanity trembled in fear of the prophecies of the Apocalypse and, in order to avoid punishment, tried to become more spiritual, kinder, and fairer. Those days are long gone. Every new day of our life is filled with pestilence, terror, discord and chaos… Alina, the heroine of Elena Ulanovsky’s story New Apocalypse, finds herself in the epicenter of this “cauldron” of world history. Crossing borders, conflicts, and languages, she painfully tries to escape from the madness of a united Europe and the massacre of the Middle East, in order to find her children, scattered by war and the pandemonium of peoples.
“In England, after the assassination attempt on the royal family and the death of all other heirs a year ago, only the daughter of the prince survived… In Belgium and Holland, terrorist detachments seized public buildings …and held several hundred hostages …old Europe was on the verge of great changes, and she no longer had to complain about boredom and satiety …In America, they brandished their firearms and tried to shout something about revenge, their tone somehow uncertain…”
Any resemblance to real persons, living or dead, is not entirely coincidental; the story of Alina, an immigrant from the former Soviet Union, echoes the journeys of thousands of victims of the 21st century. The forces of evil press inexorably against human civilization. Today Elena Ulanovsky’s story no longer sounds like a warning…
Elena Ulanovsky grew up in Ukraine and emigrated to Israel, later relocating to the United States. Her life journey inspired her to become a writer, and provided her with ample material for her books. Her novels Palms from the Asphalt, New Apocalypse, Formula of the Family, and Town where the Apricots Bloomed were first published in New York City and Israeli magazines, then released as books. In Israel, her debut book Palms from the Asphalt is read as an encyclopedia of the great post-soviet Aliyah to Israel. Her novel New Apocalypse which has been translated to English for the first time, focuses on the story of a woman protecting her children in a phantasmagoric geopolitical setting. The novel won the Nikolai Gogol International Literary Prize “Triumph” in 2020.
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