{"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. Forced out of Belarus by political persecution, he now lives in Lithuania.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAlso available\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eRead it in the original Belarusian: \u003ca href=\"\/products\/jablyk-u-valizcy-apple-in-the-trunk-uladzislau-navazylau-lesley-knife\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eЯблык у валізцы\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003csmall\u003ePreviously announced under the working title \u003cem\u003eOut of Place\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/small\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003ca href=\"\/pages\/author\/uladzislau-navazylau-lesley-knife\"\u003eUladzislaŭ Navažylaŭ (Lesley Knife)\u003c\/a\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eTranslator and editor:\u003c\/strong\u003e Olya Ianovskaia\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrations:\u003c\/strong\u003e Oksana Oxy Gen Gatalskaya\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eOriginal title:\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cem\u003eЯблык у валізцы\u003c\/em\u003e (Grunwald Publishing, 2025)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eEdition:\u003c\/strong\u003e First English edition, 2026\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eFormats:\u003c\/strong\u003e Paperback, 5.5 × 8.5 in, 338 pages; EPUB\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eISBN (paperback):\u003c\/strong\u003e 978-1-0693348-4-8\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eISBN (EPUB):\u003c\/strong\u003e 978-1-0693348-9-3\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/strong\u003e Grunwald Publishing, Canada\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Uladzislaŭ Navažylaŭ (Lesley Knife)","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":67605101543656,"sku":"978-1-0693348-4-8","price":27.99,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":false},{"title":"EPUB","offer_id":67605101576424,"sku":"978-1-0693348-9-3","price":10.99,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0812\/9760\/4840\/files\/as-much-freedom-as-you-can-carry_front_1200w.jpg?v=1790699639","url":"https:\/\/grunwald.ca\/products\/as-much-freedom-as-you-can-carry-confessions-of-a-belarusian-metalhead-uladzislau-navazylau-lesley-knife","provider":"Grunwald Publishing Inc","version":"1.0","type":"link"}