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“I envy children. They are allowed to believe in fairy tales, and we are not. Adults love fairy tales more than anything else in the world, but people are ashamed to admit it.” – says the hero of a new book by well-known Belarusian writer Alhierd Bacharevič. To pay off a debt to his creditor, the writer-debtor writes fairy tales – and reads them to shameless adults every evening for a month. Each day, the storyteller’s fairy tale world becomes more and more real, and the reality in which the action takes place begins to turn more and more into a fairy tale – until finally the line between fantasy and reality is finally blurred.

In “The Last Book of Mr. A.,” Bacharevič once again opens the door to his artistic world: so deceptively familiar to us from the everyday world around us, and so surprisingly unreal, disturbing, magical and frightening.

The first edition of the novel was published in June 2020 and became a true bestseller within months.