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The fifth edition of the main work of Alhierd Bacharevič – the novel “Dogs of Europe”, banned in the Republic of Belarus. The book is about the power of language and the language of power, about Belarus as a European island and Europe as a Belarusian destiny, about the eternal mystery of creativity and human obsession.

Alhierd Bacharevič is one of the most original contemporary Belarusian writers. “The Dogs of Europe” is a monumental novel in which the dark demons of Europe’s past once again shake off their chains….. (The New York Review of Books)

A political thriller-anti-utopia….. one of the most important works ever published in Belarus. (The Guardian)

Bacharevič paints a kaleidoscopic picture of language as fairy-tale forest, as gulag, as monument, as grave, as eternal life. (The New York Times)

Bacharevič is a key figure in contemporary Belarusian literature. (New Eastern Europe)

An unusual, paradoxical and vivid book… about the new Middle Ages in which we live. A hooligan, daring, passionate novel (Novaya Gazeta)

Bacharevič raised so many topics in “Dogs of Europe” that they would be enough for more than one doctoral dissertation, and tried to turn the ship of Belarusian literature where the world literature is moving. (Tut.by)

“A ‘total’ novel … in which the motif of Belarusian homelessness and homelessness in the world resounds everywhere… (Radio Svaboda)

In his monumental novels, Bacharevič explores the conditions of totalitarian existence, nourishing those wounds that the West likes to forget about because they cause only phantom pain here, at best. (from the wording of the Erwin Piscator Prize jury)

The book actively advocates incitement of social, political and ideological enmity between the citizens of the country and representatives of state power, calls for mass riots with the aim of illegal seizure of power. (SB – Belarus Today)