A fictionalised autobiography and an ambitious experiment in reconstructing personal memory.

Written between 2022 and 2025, the book follows Maks Shchur’s search for the origins of identity, combining memoir, humour and self-irony with a broad portrait of recent Belarusian history.

Spanning nearly a century of family stories, the narrative moves from Soviet and post-Soviet Belarus to emigration in Prague, tracing youth, literature, politics, music, love, addiction and exile. At once intimate memoir, coming-of-age story and portrait of an era, the book offers an unusually candid account of one life shaped by historical change.

Published in two volumes.

Language: Belarusian
Cover: softcover
Number of pages: 930
Place of publication: Czech Republic