Blending fable, satire and speculative fiction, the novel imagines a society where language itself becomes a mechanism of power. 

Originally published in Belarusian in 2014, Alindarka's Children established Alhierd Bacharevič as one of Eastern Europe's most inventive contemporary novelists.Children are separated from their parents, education becomes ideological conditioning, and reality shifts according to who controls words and memory. Rather than straightforward dystopia, Bacharevič writes in a dreamlike register where fairy tale, political allegory and literary play continually overlap.

The novel has often been read as a meditation on Belarusian identity and the suppression of language under authoritarianism, but its concerns reach far beyond one country. It asks how language forms consciousness, how history is rewritten, and how children inherit political violence. For readers interested in writers such as Olga Tokarczuk, Mikhail Bulgakov or Antoine Volodine, Alindarka's Children offers a strange, unsettling vision where fantasy becomes a way of thinking through censorship, nationalism and cultural survival.

English translation published by Art Council England, 2018 paperback. Very good condition with light shelf wear. Clean, unmarked interior.