'Ragnarok' is one book in a series of ancient myths reimagined by contemporary writers from around the world, including Antonia Susan Byatt, Margaret Atwood, David Grossman, Su Tong, Olga Tokarczuk, Victor Pelevin, and others.

A poignant, lyrical, autobiographical book about a five-year-old girl evacuated from London to the countryside during World War II. She worries about her father, a military pilot whose fate is tragically unclear, and reads a book of Scandinavian myths. Terrifying yet poetic stories about the tree Yggdrasil, the wolf Fenrir, the serpent Jormungandr, and the treacherous god Loki culminate in the myth of Ragnarok, the death of the gods. Only after monstrous death and destruction can the world begin anew.