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!

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 new...

The author has been working as a psychologist with political prisoners and their families, including children, since 2021. The book presents children's memories collected during her practice about the repressions that affected their families, as well as dreams, visions, and fairy tales that they wrote to survive the trauma. Their experiences are compared with the stories of women and children...

In fact, this book is about people being afraid to live, being afraid to fight, being afraid to speak up, being afraid to be like their mothers, being afraid to fall off a horse, being afraid to admit the obvious, being afraid to break up with a drug addict, being afraid to suffer, being afraid to get into an accident, being afraid to put a comma in the wrong place, being afraid to be...