The Weathering, Artem Chapeye
The Weathering, Artem Chapeye
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The Weathering

Author: Artem Chapeye, Daisy Gibbons

Narrator: Daniel Henning

Unabridged: 5 hr 59 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 03/24/2026


Synopsis

Award-winning Ukranian author Artem Chapeye's new novel follows a young couple who escape city life to the mountains in Ukraine, only to discover an altered reality upon their return.

After a young couple return from their summer in the Carpathian Mountains in Ukraine, they discover that the world as they once knew it no longer exists. Survivors are forced to adapt to the harsh conditions of their new reality: a place where erosion floats in on a breeze, and ceasing to exist comes with a deceptively joyous capitulation. Overcoming deeply rooted fears, they try to forge another world, uniting with those who continue to fight the darker urges that can emerge when a society must rebuild.

Will the couple be able to survive, make alliances with others, and give birth to a new generation? Will the insidiousness of human nature manifest itself in this new, post-apocalyptic world? Filled with beautifully melancholic and black humor, The Weathering becomes a kind of study of behavior in critical situations when everything that once seemed stable falls apart.

About Artem Chapeye

An author of both creative nonfiction and popular fiction, Artem Chapeye was born and raised in the small western Ukrainian city of Kolomyia, and has spent much of the last twenty years living in Kyiv. He is the author of two novels and four books of creative nonfiction, and is a coauthor of a book of war reportage. A four-time finalist of the BBC Book of the Year Award, his collection The Ukraine was one of three finalists in the award's new nonfiction category in 2018. Artem is an avid traveler who spent close to two years living, working, and traveling in the US and Central America-an experience that has greatly informed his writing. His work has been translated into seven languages, and has appeared in English in the Best European Fiction anthology and in publications such as Refugees Worldwide, translated by Marian Schwartz. Artem is a past recipient of the Central European Initiative Fellowship for Writers in Residence (Slovenia) and the Paul Celan Fellowship for Translators (Austria), as well as a finalist of the Kurt Schork Award in International Journalism. He serves on the board of PEN Ukraine.


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