Cassandra Is Wrong Once

Cassandra Is Wrong Once is more than a travel diary; it is an attempt to capture the psychological shifts brought about by war. The heroine’s route runs through Kyiv, Vienna, Paris, and Berlin, yet this is no leisurely journey across Europe, but an exhausting passage between evacuation and return.
Oksana Shchur uses the distinctive lens of the essay to transform a kaleidoscope of emotions and human behavior in extreme circumstances into literature of the highest order. The book is filled with cultural allusions and incisive dialogues with the Western world about global politics. It is a profound record of the intellectual landscape of contemporary Ukraine, where self-irony and biting sarcasm become tools of self-protection and of making sense of a new reality.