Masha Kaleka (1907–1975) emigrated three times. The first time as a child: her family fled pogroms from Poland to Germany. The second time in 1938, from Berlin. The Nazis recognized her first poetry collections as ‘harmful and undesirable,’ and she emigrated to the United States. And later to Israel. She escaped the worst. But homesickness weighed on her until her death. She never found a...

More trips to the colorful places of Minsk: this time the main places of events are the 50th anniversary park of October and the dormitories near the Mogilevskaya metro station. Even more mysteries that only the unique duo of Yuryevna and Gorkovy can solve. No worse than Holmes and Watson!

But our main character is a city boy. University professor Antos loses his faithful friend, the beagle Argus. At the same time, his wife decides that their marriage has exhausted itself. Looking for a hobby to occupy his mind, Anton agrees to help his friend and decipher the text of mysterious notebooks found in an attic in one of the villages near the Abyss - the swamp near which the main...

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...