THE LAST BOOK OF MR. A. – ALGERD BAHAREVICH

“I envy children. They are allowed to believe in fairy tales, but we are not. Adults love fairy tales more than anything in the world, but people are ashamed to admit it,” says the hero of the new book by the famous Belarusian writer Algerd Bakharevich. To pay the debt to the creditor, the writer-debtor writes fairy tales – and reads them to shameless adults every night for a whole month. Every day, the storyteller’s fairy-tale world becomes more and more real, and the reality in which the action takes place begins to turn more and more into a fairy tale – so that, in the end, the border between fantasy and reality is finally erased. Bakharevich in “The Last Book of Mr. A.” again opens the door to his artistic world: so deceptively familiar to us from the surrounding everyday life and so wonderfully unreal, disturbing, magical and scary. The first edition of the novel was published in June 2020 and after a few months it became a real bestseller.