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There is no hope.

There’s mud, drones and a concrete basement ceiling if you’re lucky enough, and a bunker that you call a blindage but is usually a flimsy pit in the ground. So what are you fighting for? Do you still believe in the sense of this struggle?

On the front line – the ‘null’ – in a patch of the world cut off by a river, a place that cannot be surrendered though it cannot be saved, Koń and his companions watch for light, knowing that what comes will more likely be an explosion setting the sky ablaze. On the null, brotherhood and courage take on a new meaning, rationality gives way to intuition, superstition and faith. There are volunteers and there are mobiks who don’t want to fight, there is love as short as life on the frontline and sometimes there is the internet from Starlink.
Koń understands this, even though he has been a soldier for a short time. Everything he had hitherto believed in and loved had died, so he left behind the ruins of his former life in Poland and went off to fight and seek redemption – or perhaps death? Dead inside, he meets Zuya, the first to bear that name. Zuya triggers in him what he thought was long dead. The past, which Koń does not talk about and does not want to think about, keeps coming back.
Then there is the dog that was not healed by the magician from Tajikistan.

The description comes from the publisher’s website.