‘Diary’ is a chronicle of the psychological breakdown of the country. The time of overturned destinies and burned-out feelings gives birth to a special literature, uncomfortable and disturbing. Here the author becomes general. Therefore, without a name, about everyone in the first person. ‘It's very difficult to write - everything is a stupor. Our current context adds to the senselessness -...

Andrey Dudko's novel is a psychedelic parody of autofiction. The protagonist, a fake alter ego of the writer, abandons his family and job and retreats to the provincial town of Slonim to create a literary masterpiece in the solitude of his empty family home. However, alcohol, casual sex, and the phantoms of his childhood haunting the city hinder his creativity. Instead of writing, the...

‘The Biggest Ferris Wheel’ is a novel-autofiction in which real life, resembling fiction, blends with fantasy, resembling life. Simple and bright stories from life, brief love affairs that never developed into anything more, the painful experience of war, encounters with people identified by initials of varying degrees of obviousness—this motley narrative is brought together in touching...

‘Nine-Shoes’ is a collection of texts by Viktor Shenderovich, written in various (very different) years and serving as an artistic reflection on several eras in Russian life. For forty years—from the early Andropov era to the late Putin era—Shenderovich has been trying to answer the question of why the country never emerged from slavery and at what point we stopped hearing the warning signs....

A collection of stories that stand out for their special feminine irony, psychologism, and lack of taboos. This is prose about finding oneself, about the life of a ‘little person’ in the big world, written in incredibly lively and sharp language.

In your hands is not just ‘The Main Mistake of Athanasius’ by Yugasi Kolyada, but a heartwarming adventure from the irretrievably wasted 2000s, where carefree student life, resort Crimea, rivers of beer, as well as gigabytes of love in its most diverse manifestations, which is most likely just a mirage, are woven into meta-prose. The author boldly turns warm memories into cold weapons, a...

The heroes of Algerd Bakharevich's novel are Belarusian-speaking children, patients of a mysterious institution called the Camp. Here they are trying to ‘cure’ them of their Belarusian accent and deprive them of their Belarusian identity. The heroes escape from the Camp into the forest, like modern Hansel and Gretel. There, they are not at all waiting for children's adventures. A fairy tale,...

The cyberpunk literary genre remained in the nineties. All its literary consequences that we see around us are the development of the genre with the prefix ‘post’. ‘Pentoquant’ is exactly such a post-cyberpunk novel, an unbridled and large-scale techno-thriller that follows in the footsteps of ‘Cryptonomicon’ and ‘Avalanche’ by Neal Stevenson, while carrying the scars of ‘Andromeda Strain’...

A poignant novel about a man living on the edge—between love and addiction, faith and self-destruction, madness and the search for meaning. – The hero goes through a journey from teenage mistakes to realizing his own diagnosis—borderline personality disorder, which becomes the key to understanding his entire life. – Pavel Selukov creates an honest and emotionally charged text about pain,...