Description

An ironic biography of man and empire.

“This novel – consistently witty, highly associative, with elements of dystopia, funny and bitter, sarcastic and sometimes cynical, imbued with humor, irony and, most importantly, self-irony, which is the best means of self-defense – will not let you get bored. And as we know, long live any genre, except the boring one!”

Uładzimir Arłoŭ

Vał Klement was born under the pseudonym Vasil Jeŭdakimaŭ in 1957 in Minsk in a family of university professors. He studied mediocre at school, practiced swimming, and in his free time he grazed clouds.
After finishing school he entered the law faculty of the Belarusian State University, where he studied the history of the CPSU, Marxism-Leninism, collective farm law and other useful sciences.

Having received a higher education, he was assigned to work in the prosecutor’s office of the city of Minsk. After some time the author parted with the prosecutor’s office with relief, and the prosecutor’s office parted with the author with relief.

From the world of offenders and law enforcers Vał Klement returned to the temple of education and upbringing, having entered the postgraduate program at BSU. He defended his thesis for the title of Candidate of Legal Sciences and got a job as a teacher at his native law faculty. In 1990 he was invited to work in one of the leading law firms of Great Britain and moved to England, which gave him an opportunity to gain experience of western legal practice, learn the Belarusian language and see another, unfamiliar world. This world he observes to this day. He lives in London.