A small travel book about the city of the SUN

Artur Klinau's "Malaia padarozhnaia knizhka pa Horadzie SONtsa" (A Small Travel Guide to the City of SUN) is one of the most important books in Belarusian literature of the last decade. It is a philosophical epic about Minsk, a city that emerges as the project of an invisible demiurge: beautiful and terrifying, totalitarian and sentimental. Klinau offers the reader an unusual stroll through the landscapes of the Minsk soul, trying to explain why we and our cities are the way they are. The book can be ordered from Kirma.sh with worldwide delivery.

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A cult work of Belarusian literature of the last decade. The book has been published in seven European languages. The author creates an epic of Minsk and attempts to provide an interpretation of this complex city – beautiful and terrifying, provincial and imperial, totalitarian and sentimental all at once.
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Artur Klinau offers an intellectual stroll through the landscapes of the Minsk soul. The City of SUN appears before the reader as a colossal project of an invisible demiurge, who decided to involve not only urban spaces but also to recruit human fates. This book is an Ishtar Gate into the Belarusian situation, a conceptual explanation of why we (and our cities) are the way we are.