To live and die in Khrotna

"Bow and Die in Khrotna" is a Belarusian Twin Peaks, Silent Hill and a metaphysical story about the corpse of one's own self. Denis Trusov's postmodern puzzle novel is a deep linguistic and philosophical journey to the borderlands of human consciousness, where the hero must remember the name of the country where he comes from. Christian and Buddhist allusions, science fiction, the destruction of time and language - everything is intertwined in one of the most unusual novels of recent years.

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Denis Trusov's book "Bow and Die in Khrotna" is a Belarusian Twin Peaks and Silent Hill, a postmodernist puzzle novel about self-awareness and remorse that explores the theme of the borderland, a linguistic adventure and unexpected science fiction with a Christian and Buddhist background, in which languages and eras are intertwined and in which the main character needs to get rid of his own corpse and remember the name of the country he comes from.

Denis Trusov — poet, musician, and novelist from Grodno. Born in 1978.
The first publications appeared in the Grodno newspapers "Moladzevy Kur'er" and "Vecherovaya Grodno". In 1996, a collection of poems was published in the brochure of the Grodno University. After graduating from the university, in 2000, he moved to live and work in Poland. In 2001, Trusav's poems, translated into Polish by Jan Leanczuk, were published in the EPEA almanac (Białystok).
The next book was a collection of poetry under the pseudonym Dina Melezh (Hrodna, 2008). Then in 2019, the Goliafy publishing house published a collection of short stories "About Mutya", and in 2021, the same publishing house published a book-collection of short prose (along with a music album available on the pages of the publication in the form of QR codes) in Belarusian under the title "Slov Mob".
In 2023, the novel was published under the editorship of Georgy Bartash "To live and die in Khrotna" in Russian — both in paper version (Hrodna, YurSa Print) and in digital version (Logvinov Publishing House). In 2025, the revised text of the novel was published in Belarusian in Bialystok by the Kamunikat.org Foundation.