{"title":"Memoirs","description":"\u003cp\u003eTrue stories of freedom, exile and the mountains, from Belarusian metal to the women who climbed the world's highest peaks.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"as-much-freedom-as-you-can-carry-confessions-of-a-belarusian-metalhead-uladzislau-navazylau-lesley-knife","title":"As Much Freedom as You Can Carry: Confessions of a Belarusian Metalhead","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eComing soon.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e“The only thing of any value to a human being is freedom.”\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLesley Knife has spent his whole life refusing to go along with things. He dug in his heels in the Soviet schoolyard, in the wild 1990s, and when Belarus slid into dictatorship, answering every new absurdity with one of his own.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is the story of that refusal: a Soviet childhood of imaginary knights and dinosaur theories; the wild, drunken freedom of the early 1990s, when Belarus became independent and metalheads rode the trains stuffed into luggage racks; the founding of Gods Tower, one of Belarus’s best-known metal bands; a prank coronation as King of Mars to mock a very real one; friends lost along the way; a three-year sentence; and, at last, a night crossing of the border with one small suitcase.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDeadpan, profane, heartbreaking and very funny, this is the confession of a man who never learned to obey, and never quite grew up.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAbout the author\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eUladzislaŭ Navažylaŭ, better known as Lesley Knife, is a Belarusian musician and writer and a co-founder of the metal band Gods Tower. 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At 62 she became the oldest woman ever to summit K2.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 2009, at the age of fifty, Liliya Ianovskaia had never climbed a mountain. She had grown up in Soviet Belarus, studied mathematics in Minsk, raised children and built a life in Canada. Mountaineering was not part of her world. Then her daughter Dasha challenged her to try.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWithin three years they stood together on the summit of Kilimanjaro. Aconcagua, Rainier and the Matterhorn followed. On May 14, 2022, mother and daughter reached the summit of Everest together, only the third mother–daughter team ever to do so. Two months later, at 62 years and 350 days, Ianovskaia summited K2 and became the oldest woman in history to reach the world’s second-highest mountain, a record certified by Guinness World Records. 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