Dogs of Europe

One of the most significant novels of modern Belarusian literature. “The Dogs of Europe” by Algirdas Bakharevich is a deep, multi-layered story about identity, totalitarianism and the fate of man in a changing world. Published abroad and translated into several languages, this work has become a true cultural phenomenon. Available with worldwide delivery.

A book about the power of language and the language of power, about Belarus as a European island and Europe as the Belarusian destiny, about the eternal mystery of creativity and human obsession.

The fifth edition of Algirdas Bakharevich's opus magnum, the novel "The Dogs of Europe", banned in the Republic of Belarus. Books about the power of language and the language of power, about Belarus as a European island and Europe as the Belarusian destiny, about the eternal mystery of creativity and human obsession.

Algird Bakharevich is one of the most original contemporary Belarusian writers. "The Dogs of Europe" is a monumental novel in which the dark demons of Europe's past shake their chains again... (The New York Review of Books)

A political dystopian thriller... one of the most important works ever published in Belarus (The Guardian)

Bakharevich gives a kaleidoscopic picture of language as a fairy-tale forest, as a Gulag, as a monument, as a grave, as eternal life. (The New York Times)

Bakharevich is the main figure of modern Belarusian literature (New Eastern Europe)

An unusual, paradoxical and vivid book... about the new Middle Ages in which we live. A hooligan, impudent, passionate novel (Novaya Gazeta)

Bakharevich raised so many topics in "The Dogs of Europe" that they would be enough for more than one PhD thesis, and tried to turn the ship of Belarusian literature to where world literature is heading (Tut.by)

A "total" novel... in which the motif of Belarusian homelessness and homelessness in the world resounds everywhere... (Radio Svaboda)

In his monumental novels, Bakharevich explores the conditions of totalitarian existence, stirring up those wounds that the West likes to forget about, because they cause only phantom pain here at best (as the Erwin Piscator Prize jury put it)