Description

What will become of us if we suddenly find ourselves on opposite sides—of a country, of history, of our own lives?

A country splits into “before” and “after”—those who remained and those who vanished, taking with them their language, memory, and civilization. The whole world falls apart, and each piece begins to live by its own rules.
But the heroes of this story are still bound together by a shared past, a choice that cannot be undone, and questions with no simple answers. Is it possible to become one again? And does anyone even want that? Belarusian writer Viktor Martynovich has created a tense and emotional work about the fault line running through people’s lives. It has it all: the experience of leaving and its cost, the complex ethics of the relationship between “us” and “them,” as well as inner conflicts that offer no respite. This is a dynamic post-apocalyptic novel with a love story and an ending that, in essence, is only the beginning.