Songs of trolleybus drivers

Elegantly written in modern Belarusian and generously spiced with dialectisms, this book stands as a song and a celebration of his native Vitebsk. Touching, captivating and, often, brutally realistic texts turned out to be a wonderful, deeply personal debut. (Arnold McMillin, author of the first English-language history of Belarusian literature) A Hymn to Vitebsk and First Love consists of stories and fairy tales that raise forgotten and uncomfortable topics of modern Belarus, related to the Belarusian language, atheism, feminism and the life of gays under Lukashenko. (Šiaurės Atėnai, a Vilnius literary newspaper)