Alindarka's Children Format:Paperback

Alindarka's Children Format:PaperbackThe 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

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It is a brazen State of the Union for a nation on the edge

technological interferences and capitalist oppression are among the main topics of resistance

finely drawn by a poet with an eye for texture and material

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exile and bombardment

though Walter constantly tries to deceive himself that it is

my grandmother

He lives in Cambridge

grieving - with a precise and inventive lyricism

Her deeply moving collaboration with composer Omar Shahryar is based on his family’s experiences of evacuation from Saudi Arabia in 1990

each serves its own purpose and offers a new layer to the character we’ve come to know so well