Publication Date: 30/09/2020 ISBN: 9781910895405 Category:

Alindarka’s Children

Alhierd Bacharevic, Petra Reid, Jim Dingley

Publisher: Scotland Street Press
Publication Date: 30/09/2020 ISBN: 9781910895405 Category:
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The masterful English debut of Alhierd Bacharevic, a new voice from Belarus

Alicia and her brother Avi are imprisoned in a camp on the edge of a forest where children are trained to forget their language through therapy, coercion, drugs, and larynx surgery. The Leid (or Belarusian language) is considered a sickness to be cured and replaced by the only pure form of language, the Lingo (Russian). A contemporary Hansel and Gretel adventure, the children escape into the forest and end up in even greater danger…

A feat of translation, Bacharevic’s story is brilliantly rendered into English and Scots from Russian and Belarusian.

Publisher Review

Bacharevic hits you in the eye with the truth, and it hurts -- Maria Martysevich Kafkaesque with elements of cyberpunk. -- New Eastern European

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