Only seven friends understand the quagmire of lies their country has fallen into, under what autocratic oppression and in what fog of vile propaganda people live. These seven remember: the country was once different. And only seven know that they have the only chance to return the former will, the former truth and the former happiness. But first you need to survive here, come up with a plan and...

The fifth edition of Algirdas Bakharevich's opus magnum, the novel ‘The Dogs of Europe’, banned in the Republic of Belarus. Books about the power of language and the language of power, about Belarus as a European island and Europe as the Belarusian destiny, about the eternal mystery of creativity and human obsession.

In The Martian Chronicles, Ray Bradbury, America’s preeminent storyteller, imagines a place of hope, dreams, and metaphor— of crystal pillars and fossil seas—where a fine dust settles on the great empty cities of a vanished, devastated civilization. Earthmen conquer Mars and then are conquered by it, lulled by dangerous lies of comfort and familiarity, and enchanted by the lingering glamour of...

Sergei Prilutsky is a punk writer, virtuoso stylist and hooligan pupil of the ‘swamp glamour society’. A piercing lyricist and a desperate translator from the unbearable to the human. Author of the books ‘Hero of the Age of Stability’, ‘Patriotism for Dummies’, ‘Nineties Forever’, ‘Nothing Scary’, etc. Born in Brest. Since the end of the zero years he has lived in Ukraine. He survived the...

The author of this book considers himself a professor of emigration. But his life is full of typos, as he himself admitted. He left Minsk for Kyiv, from there to Warsaw, and ended up in Berlin. Why did it happen? How much does glass and aluminum containers cost in Germany? What does an eye prosthesis look like? How to avoid a madhouse when faced with German bureaucracy? What does...

This is her first book of non-fiction - a collection of essays, memoirs and reflections on memory and forgetting, music and love, emigration and connection to Belarus through the ghostly identity of a man who once believed that music was stronger than death and lyrics were more important than life.

The first half of the nineties was a time of great hopes and expectations associated with the collapse of the communist regime and the acquisition of independence. And today, recalling the events of more than thirty years ago, I ask myself: “What went wrong? Why were these expectations not met?” I hope that the book will encourage the reader to reflect on this topic.

An introduction to Belarusian intellectualism from one of its most famous — and most controversial — proponents and defenders. A rousing vocabulary, brazen enthusiasm, unyielding sarcasm, and paradoxical sharpness of thought. A new culture of national thinking. The birth of a legend.This is the first reprint in 25 years of a cult book that was first published in 1998. With the author’s...

‘The Hopak Equation’ by Ukrainian writer Lesha Palkich has the subtitle ‘about a war without war.’ In this parable novel, a southerner, a family man, good-natured, is forced to go to war with the northerners in order to earn money to save his son. But what kind of war is this? ‘The inhabitants of the North and South were one people in ancient times...’ The massacre started by the government...

This book is a chronicle of an unprecedented exposure of torture, tacitly legalized in Russian prisons. An ordinary guy from Belarus, Sergei Savelyev, was sent to a Russian prison on a fabricated drug case and first experienced the bloody hell of ‘re-education’. Later, when he was recruited to work as an administrator in a prison hospital, he gained access to a gigantic video archive stored...

This book is the third in a documentary series about the fates of Soviet writers. The first, ‘The Knot. Poets of Friendship and Breaks,’ is dedicated to the 1920s and 1930s. The second, ‘Noah’s Ark of Writers,’ is about the evacuation of Soviet writers and their families during the war to Tashkent, Alma-Ata, Chistopol, and Yelabuga. Together, these books create a kind of fresco of Soviet...