Psy Europy with delivery to Ireland

"Hooligan, brazen, passionate". A novel banned in Belarus by one of the most acclaimed contemporary Belarusian-language writers.

Alhierd Bacharewicz, born in Minsk in 1975, quickly gained the status of one of the most interesting writers in the Belarusian language. At the end of 2020, after taking part in the mass protests and publishing an essay on Belarusian fascism, he emigrated from the country, living in Austria and Switzerland before settling in Berlin. In 2022 Bacharewicz's books were declared extremist and banned in Belarus, and the print run of Psów Europy was destroyed. The writer's magnum opus had, however, already managed to achieve cult status.

Psy Europy combines the conventions of the crime novel, the fairy tale, the realist novel, dystopia and the parable. Bacharewicz employs a distinctive humour, a sense of perversity and a talent for portraying ordinary people. The starting point is the creation of balbuta, an artificial language that is a form of paper freedom, since the real kind does not exist.

In 2025 Psy Europy was awarded the Leipzig Book Prize for European Understanding.

"Hooligan, brazen, passionate" – "Novaya Gazeta"

"Extremely comic and at the same time deeply melancholy" – "Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung"

"A monumental novel in which the dark demons of Europe's past rattle their chains once again…" – "The New York Review of Books"

"A dystopian political thriller, one of the most important works ever published in Belarus" – "The Guardian"