Round Square

Val Clement’s novel "Kruhlaya Square" is a witty and irony-saturated story that balances between utopia and reality. Laughter and bitterness, sarcasm and self-deprecation coexist here—the best defense against the absurdity of life. The author, a Belarusian with extensive experience in legal and academic work in Minsk and London, creates a highly topical text that won't let you get bored. This is a book for those who love it when literature both entertains and makes you think.

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“This novel—invariably witty, highly associative, with elements of dystopia, cheerful and bitter, sarcastic and sometimes cynical, infused with humor, irony, and, most importantly, self-deprecation, which is the best form of self-defense—will not let you be bored. And as they say, long live every genre, except the boring one!” Uladzimir Arlou

Val Clement was born under the pseudonym Vasil Yeudakimaŭ in 1957 in Minsk into a family of university professors. He was an average student in school, swam, and spent his spare moments watching the clouds.
After finishing school, he entered the Law Faculty of BSU, where he studied the history of the CPSU, Marxism-Leninism, collective farm law, and other useful sciences.
After receiving his higher education, he was assigned to work in the Minsk city prosecutor's office. After some time, the author parted ways with the prosecutor's office with relief, and the prosecutor's office parted ways with the author with relief.
From the world of offenders and law enforcement officers, Val Clement returned to the temple of education and upbringing, entering postgraduate studies at BSU. He defended his dissertation for a PhD in Law and took a position as a lecturer at his alma mater's law faculty. In 1990, he was invited to work at one of the leading law firms in Great Britain and moved to England, which gave him the opportunity to acquire experience in Western legal practice, learn the Belarusian language, and see another, unfamiliar world. He is still observing this world today. He lives in London.