The endless Russian flight brings the first wave of emigrants to the Balkans. They have only a couple of decades of peaceful life between two catastrophes — from the Civil War to the Second World War. Each turn of the novel puts the heroes — musicians, writers, journalists — before a classic collision of the 20th century: how to remain human in the millstones of history. And each of them makes...

‘Letters from Nowhere’ is both a book by Jonas Mekas and a book about Jonas Mekas. The very first definition that any reference book gives about him is ‘the godfather of the New York film avant-garde’. The fact that this Lithuanian-American poet, writer, director, critic and producer is much broader and deeper than any idea about him is evidenced by his ‘Letters from Nowhere’ - a series of...

The hero of the novel by one of the most popular writers of modern Lithuania, Herkus Kuncius (born in 1965), is a Lithuanian intellectual of the bohemian persuasion languishing in Paris, whose observations, thoughts and comments about the French capital and its inhabitants form the content of the book. The author’s description of Paris at first evokes amazement, which turns into a smile, and...

The collection ‘White Shroud’ introduces the Russian reader to the prose of Antanas Škema (1911-1961) - one of the most interesting and significant writers of the Lithuanian emigrant wave of the 1940s

‘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 is...

Bobo is a white elephant that the Turkish sultan gives to the Russian tsar. Bobo dreams of being a war elephant and serving his new sovereign. The elephant walks through modern Russia, with its war and resistance, wealth and poverty, well-fed grunts and anticipation of a nuclear strike. Bobo talks to warblers and designers, poets and embezzlers, clergy and pigs. Bobo makes history, but only in...

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 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.

In the world of this book, crossing the border requires paying with one's own flesh, and sooner or later a summons to the deadly swamp arrives in the mailbox. But ‘Black Forest’ is not fantasy or dystopia, but a realistic reflection of the world in which Belarusians found themselves after 2020. Horror of a man in uniform, the experience of trauma, the loss of a homeland, fortitude and...

The book's hero finds his old phone and rereads the surviving text messages. There is something to remember about each of them - you can write a whole novel. And in the novel, touch on these eternal questions: how to live, how to find love, how to earn money with literature, spend no more than two bucks a day, do you need to go to the square to change the government?

The author of this book may be better known as a musician of Port Mone, Polyn or SK.EIN, but for many years now he has been writing texts in the author's fusion genre on the border of essays and poetic sketches-miniatures. Together they form a disorganized surfing of the world order, a guide to man, a map of the abyss over which we occasionally stretch out our hands to each other. Reading...

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.