…And he acquired this house

The trilogy by Mikola Adam "...And He Acquired This House" — a family saga, non-fiction, and confessional prose all at once. Events unfold starting in the 1970s, depicting the relationship between the son of an enemy of the people and the daughter of a Hero of the Soviet Union, a Belarusian and a Ukrainian, in Kazakhstan and Belarus. The author recounts the odyssey of the heroes sincerely and uncompromisingly, about love as fate, not a divine gift, about the national consciousness that is always lacking.

"Searching for one's roots, probing one's selfhood, identity – it's not an easy task. One needs a strong character: people don't always have the courage to accept, acknowledge, and even more so, tell the whole world certain facts about their family. Mikola Adam, in his new work, masterfully balances on the edge of non-fiction and fiction, creating a voluminous artistic reality, reconstructing the past step by step, filling the space of the work with facts, vivid emotions, everyday and historical details, thanks to which it feels as if you are reading a document of the era." (Yanka Laikou)

"The prose of Mikola Adam in contemporary Belarusian literature is a distinctive phenomenon. First and foremost, for its unique style with a dominance of poetic metaphor, which gives the reader true delight from every sentence. The plots of Mikola Adam's works are like a swift river current from which one does not want to exit." (Paval Haspadzinich)