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...

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?

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.

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 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...

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...

‘Memorial is a community of public organizations working on human rights and the history of victims of Soviet repression. At the moment when the Nobel Committee awarded Memorial the Peace Prize, Boris Belenkin was in Moscow in the courthouse and was a defendant in a lawsuit filed by the prosecutor's office, which had seized the society's premises. This book is not the history of Memorial,...

‘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...

This book is a chronicle of an unprecedented exposure of torture, tacitly legalized in Russian prisons. An ordinary guy from Belarus, Sergei Savelyev, was sent to a Russian prison on a fabricated drug case and first experienced the bloody hell of ‘re-education’. Later, when he was recruited to work as an administrator in a prison hospital, he gained access to a gigantic video archive stored...

This book is the third in a documentary series about the fates of Soviet writers. The first, ‘The Knot. Poets of Friendship and Breaks,’ is dedicated to the 1920s and 1930s. The second, ‘Noah’s Ark of Writers,’ is about the evacuation of Soviet writers and their families during the war to Tashkent, Alma-Ata, Chistopol, and Yelabuga. Together, these books create a kind of fresco of Soviet...

The book, written by the famous historian Yuri Felshtinsky, is a detective story about the multifaceted interweaving of the destinies of Russian businessman Dmitry Rybolovlev, who went from being suspected of involvement in a murder to becoming a billionaire, in whose pockets were such different people as the president of the island of Cyprus, the prince of Monaco, the dictator of Belarus...