Language

"Language" is an action-packed linguistic thriller about a world in which Belarusian culture has been displaced and language has become contraband. It is a story about how, in a time of total consumerism and the Sinicization of the world, even a single word can become a weapon, memory a crime, and love a form of resistance.

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Minsk, 4741 according to the Chinese calendar. The Times of Sorrow are over, the era of the rise of the Union State of China and Russia, carefree pleasures, shopping religion and cold sex has come. However, there is Something that is as lacking in this society of complete well-being as water and air. Sentimental smuggler Seryozha, under pain of death penalty, imports a valuable treasure from abroad and finds himself under the close supervision of the Minsk underground, led by the Chinese mafia under the guidance of the mysterious Aunt. Together they try to break the system in which good and evil, enlighteners and criminals, love and consumption, loyalty and betrayal have changed places. Can you imagine Belarus without Belarus? This novel is a terrible dream about the future, which can only be prevented in unity with the treasure around which the action of this linguistic thriller begins.