The fifth edition of Algirdas Bakharevich's magnum opus, the novel "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.

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

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

Bakharevich is a key figure in contemporary 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)

In "Dogs of Europe" Bakharevich raised so many topics 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 sounds everywhere... (Radio Svaboda)

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

The book actively promotes the incitement of social, political and ideological hostility between citizens of the country and representatives of the state administration, people are called upon to mass riots in order to illegally seize power (SB - Belarus today)