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Old legends. Lost classics. New voices. From Belarus.
Folk tales and foundational classics in their first English translations, as well as Belarusian writers in their own language.
New · Bilingual flip-book
A book with two souls.
Maksim Haretski’s Two Souls / Дзьве душы (1919), in two languages
Open it one way, and it’s in English. Turn it over, and it’s Haretski’s original Belarusian, set from the first edition (Vilnia, 1919) in its original spelling. Read the translation, the original, or both.
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Nobleman Zavalnia, or Belarus in Fantastical Tales
Jan Barszczewski · translated by Olya Ianovskaia · illustrated by Nasta Lee
A founding work of Belarusian literature, in its first complete English translation, now as a keepsake edition. Witches, restless souls, enchanted forests and haunted battlefields, told at one nobleman’s hearth in the strange years after the “year without a summer,” brought to life in full colour by Belarusian artist Nasta Lee.
Hardcover, full colour, 8 × 10 in, 304 pages. With two companion tales. The trade paperback and EPUB are available now.
WHY GRUNWALD
Two ways of keeping a literature alive.
For most of the last century, Belarusian literature was censored at home and rarely translated abroad. Today, many Belarusian writers live in exile, with nowhere in Belarus to publish. While the culture is under pressure at home, every Belarusian book on a shelf abroad is an act of resistance.
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The classics, in English
Folk tales, classics and early ethnography, many in English for the first time: from the 1846 folk horror of Nobleman Zavalnia to Haretski’s 1919 novel Two Souls.
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New voices, in Belarusian
Poetry, novels and stories by contemporary Belarusian writers, many of them in exile, published in their own language.
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