[7][8] Stalking the Atomic City is a novel written by Kamysh about his experiences illegally exploring the exclusion zone.

[11] The Telegraph admitted that the work is "mesmerizing",[12] The Wall Street Journal called the novel "A punk rock pilgrimage to Chernobyl"[13], The Times noted the "style" and the author's "passion",[14] Le Point stated that it was “wonderfully written”, la Repubblica noted “strong character”[15], The Irish Independent described the text as “an unforgettable read”,[16] il Manifesto wrote that this is “... not a sickly apocalyptic tourism, but an act of love, its deprivation, mystical entanglement in the overtaken world that confronts us in hopeless and eerie beauty”,[17] and The New York Times included it in the list of translated literature from all over the world for 2022.

[20] Les Inrocks highlighted that it is a "Brilliant text between an intimate story, a spicy walk and a searing post-Chernobyl document" and summed up the work as "A morbid and magical world reminiscent of the films of Tim Burton and Jim Jarmusch, in which Markiyan Kamysh plays a Baudelaire vagabond.

"[21] The reviewer of the Corriere della Sera summed up his review of the novel as follows: "Thanks to a style balanced between the linguistic ecstasy of a desperate journey, between the destruction of the relics of a historical tragedy and the cruel and sentimental minimalism of a terrifying reality, Kamysh writes a work capable of shaking us in the face of human pain and the pain of nature.

"[22] Critics compare Kamysh with Hunter Thompson,[23] Jack Kerouac[24] and Charles Bukowski.