Viktor Martinovich’s debut novel PARANOIA is an electrifying political thriller and a tragic story of love and betrayal, which if nothing else shines a spotlight on the methods of Big Brother in the 21st century – the new reality in Belarus under dictatorship of Lukashenko. As Martinovich himself says: “One does not need to write a new ‘1984‘ anymore, one just needs to look around.“
THE LOOP is a new collection of short prose by Roman Senchin.
The newest novel VIXEN HILL by Anna Starobinets is a horror thriller in the genre of mystic realism takes. The action takes place in the Far East, on the border of the Soviet Union and Manchuria (China) in 1945, right after the end of World War II and the Japanese occupation of the region. The novel combi- nes the history of the USSR, Chinese mythology, Japanese genetic engineering and Siberian shamanism.
«Starobinets doesn‘t let the reader relax for a minute as she manages to keep up the hellish pace over seven hundred and something pages.» MEDUZA (Galina Yuzefovich)