The main character, Adam Tsisowski, is seventeen. He was nicknamed the Devil not for his bad behavior, but for the fact that he knows how to solve very complex, seemingly unsolvable problems. And he is not a devil at all, but a sincere, honest, responsible and brave guy. The events – mysterious, adventurous, detective – begin in Warsaw, and then move to a noble estate near Vilnius. Adas and...

This is a true Euro-novel from a first-wave Belarusian emigrant who, in pursuit of abstraction, embarks on an odyssey from Prague to Amsterdam, along the way dismantling modern Europe, Belarus of that time, and, of course, himself. Along the way, he will encounter museums, ghosts of the past, spontaneous lovers, and communists, whom the author will fend off with a sharp pen and a well-aimed...

The book ‘A soda machine with syrup and without’ by Uladzimir Nyaklyaev is a social novel that, through microstories of Minsk bohemia, tells us about History with a capital letter. In this History, there are many faces standing together in line for soda: Lee Harvey Oswald and Kim Khadeyev, dissidents and G.E.B.s, survivors of World War II and cold front fighters, the one who reported and who...

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’...

What would happen if an ordinary girl were to be made the daughter of a pirate captain, and then thrown into a storm off the coast of a distant southern country, landed on a deserted island and sent to search for her father? And given two aliens as assistants, one of whom is a cat, and the other is a whale (although not quite)?

Step 2 of the series ‘I read to myself’ Font for dyslexics (and not only). Friends Hare and Bear congratulate their grandmother on her birthday and also choose a new car.

10 Belarusian fairy tales about kindness, hard work, courtesy, intelligence and mercy. The collection of fairy tales that you hold in your hands is a collection of legends and beliefs that have been passed down from generation to generation in my family. The stories I heard in my childhood from village grandmothers and grandfathers inspired me to write this book. The Belarusian village is a...