CATASTOPHE

282pp., paperback, Cape Town, 2022

Exiled ballerina Lena Sergeyevna, dying of cancer in a New York hospital, talks for the first time about fleeing from the 1986 Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant disaster where her husband Yuri, a nuclear physicist, disappeared while performing top-secret research.

Ian Sutherland is the author of the novel Subversion (first published under the title Featherstream). He lives in Cape Town.