Elephant

"The Elephant" is a difficult, deeply emotional novel by Sasha Filippenko, written with precision and pain. This is a book about how we are all afraid of something - and yet we continue to live, feel, and search for meaning. Awarded the Transfuge Prize as the best European novel of 2023, "The Elephant" is a text that will touch everyone.

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“In fact, this book is about people being afraid to live, being afraid to fight, being afraid to speak up, being afraid to be like their mothers, being afraid to fall off a horse, being afraid to admit the obvious, being afraid to break up with a drug addict, being afraid to suffer, being afraid to get into an accident, being afraid to put a comma in the wrong place, being afraid to be sensitive, being afraid of tenants, being afraid of jellyfish, being afraid to sing in the street to passersby and not pay for the fare, being afraid to breathe, being afraid to be late, being afraid to come early, being afraid to leave a bad play in the middle of a performance, being afraid to make a mistake, being afraid to point out a mistake, being afraid to believe, being afraid of critics and commentators, being afraid to go to parent-teacher conferences, being afraid to defend your boundaries, being afraid not to be afraid, being afraid to get a job, being afraid of the rush, being afraid of turbulence, being afraid that she will never call again, being afraid, to admit that he is still the one she needs, to be afraid of war, to be afraid of appearing sensitive, to be afraid of overdoing it, to be afraid of speaking another language with mistakes, to be afraid of escalators, to be afraid of not getting up, to be afraid of not being strong enough, that someone else will do it better, to be afraid of being honest, to be afraid of reading what he has written, to be afraid of putting down bad books, to be afraid of missing a beat, to be afraid of faking it, and to be afraid of truly loving.”
(c) Sasha Filippenko

Sasha Filipenko (born in 1984) — A Belarusian with vast journalistic experience. He is published in world-class press and actively defends common sense and humanity.

Author of seven novels, as well as short stories and plays . Winner of a number of prestigious awards, the most notable of which is — French Literary Prize Transmigration for the novel “ Cremulator ” in as the best European novel of 2023.

Novels by Sasha Filipenk and translated into French, German, Czech, Hungarian, Polish, Italian, English, Croatian, Dutch, Spanish, Japanese, Swedish, Slovak, Thai, Korean languages. They are written in Russian, but were rewritten in Belarusian.

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