Alindarka's Children: Things Will Be Bad

Alicia and her brother Avi are interned in a camp where children are taught to forget their mother tongue and speak the language of the coloniser.  They escape into the Belarusian forest to go on an adult Hansel and Gretel adventure. The masterful English debut of Alhierd Bacharevic, a new voice from BelarusAlicia and her brother Avi are imprisoned in a camp on the edge of a forest where children are trained to forget their language through therapy, coercion, drugs, and larynx surgery. The Leid (or Belarusian language) is considered a sickness to be cured and replaced by the only pure form of language, the Lingo (Russian). A contemporary Hansel and Gretel adventure, the children escape into the forest and end up in even greater danger...  A feat of translation, Bacharevic’s story is brilliantly rendered into English and Scots from Russian and Belarusian.

• | Author: Alhierd Bacharevic, Petra Reid, Jim Dingley
• | Publisher: Scotland Street Press
• | Publication Date: Sep 30, 2020
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• | Binding: Paperback / softback
• | ISBN-13: 9781910895405
• | ISBN-10: 1910895407