Alindarka's Children
Alhierd Bacharevič, Translated by Jim Dingley and Petra Reid
Description
Alindarka's Children (Dzieci Alindarkiis, 2014) is a contemporary novel about a brother and a sister interned in a camp. Here children are taught to forget their own language and speak the language of the colonizer, aided by the use of drugs as well as surgery on the larynx to cure the 'illness' of using the Belarusian language.
The children escape but are pursued by the camp leaders and left to thrive for themselves in this adventure, which bears a likeness to an adult, literary 'Hansel and Gretel'.
The dialogue translates well to the guttural differences between English Received Pronunciations and Scots. The Russian, translated by Jim Dingley, will become RP and the Belarusian, translated by Macsonnetries author Petra Reid, Scots. This novel has been translated and will be published in September 2020 thanks to the Pen Translates Award, won by Scotland Street Press in May 2019
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Reviews
'Kafkaesque with elements of cyberpunk'
-New Eastern Europe
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'An average Russian citizen tends to see Belarus as a Russian province, and in line with traditional Russian nationalism considers Belarusian to be an 'uncouth village patois'
-New Eastern Europe
Author Biography
Bacharevič weaves into the novel his own personal experience of growing up in a linguistically-torn country. In the 1990s he was the founder and vocalist of the first Belarusian-language punk band Pravakacyja ('Provocation'). He is now a multi award winning author and his works have been translated into English, French, German, Czech, Ukranian, Bulgarian, Slovene, Russian, Polish, and Lithuanian.
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Copyright © Alhierd Bacharevič 2014
English translation copyright © Scotland Street Press (SS Press Ltd) 2020
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- Publisher Scotland Street Press
- Publication Date September 2020
- Orginal LanguageRussian
- ISBN/Identifier 9781910895405
- Publication Country or regionUnited Kingdom
- FormatPaperback
- Primary Price 11.99 GBP
- Pages350
- ReadershipGeneral
- Publish StatusPublished
- Original Language TitleDzieci Alindarkiis
- Original Language AuthorsAlhierd Bacharevič
- EditionTranslation
- Copyright Year2014
- Page size198x130 (198x139) mm
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