Round Square

Val Klement's novel "Round Square" is a witty and irony-filled story that balances between utopia and reality. Laughter and bitterness, sarcasm and self-irony – the best defense against the absurdity of life – coexist here. The author, a Belarusian with extensive experience in legal and academic work in Minsk and London, creates a sharply social text that won't let you get bored. This book is for those who appreciate literature that both entertains and provokes thought.

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"This novel – consistently witty, highly associative,
with elements of dystopia, humorous and poignant, sarcastic and at times
cynical, permeated with humor, irony, and most importantly, self-irony, which is the best means of self-defense – will not let you get bored. And as we know, long live any genre, except the boring one!" Uladzimir Arlou

Val Klement was born under the pseudonym Vasil Yeudakimau in 1957 in Minsk to a family of university lecturers. He was an average student at school, engaged in swimming, and in his free time, herded clouds.
After finishing school, he enrolled in the Faculty of Law at BSU, where he studied the history of the CPSU, Marxism-Leninism, collective farm law, and other useful sciences.
After receiving higher education, he was assigned to work in the Minsk city prosecutor's office. After some time, the author gladly parted ways with the prosecutor's office, and the prosecutor's office gladly parted ways with the author.
From the world of offenders and law enforcement officers, Val Klement returned to the temple of education and upbringing, enrolling in postgraduate studies at BSU. He defended his dissertation for the degree of Candidate of Legal Sciences and became a lecturer at his native law faculty. In 1990, he was invited to work for one of the leading legal firms in Great Britain and moved to England, which allowed him to gain experience in Western legal practice, learn the Belarusian language, and see a different, unfamiliar world. He continues to observe this world to this day. He lives in London.