Download PDF by Natalka Babina: Down Among the Fishes

Today as a rule linked to the character of President Lukashenka, Belarus is still a terra incognita for the remainder of the area. Babina’s strangely clean portrait of today’s Belarus celebrates the country’s various demographics be it enterprise, schooling, tradition or simply the best way humans cross approximately their day-by-day errands.

Natalka Babina created a unique to rejoice the unseen within the nation the place humans needed to learn how to exist ‘backstage’. within the novel, the writer writes approximately her native land the place, opposite to mostly unfold stereotypes, humans do get pleasure from a fulfilled existence: they love, paintings, search and locate happiness, struggle opposed to injustice, snicker and cry. With entry to web in huts below thatched roofs in rural parts and massive companies turning approximately large capitals in significant towns, debatable and dynamic Belarus is a melting pot of languages, cultures and religions; a rustic the place people’s neighborhood id is deeply rooted in historical past that is going again to the good Duchy of Lithuania.

Down one of the Fishes revolves round the tale of a girl named Alka, local of a small Belarusian village close to the Polish border. Alka’s unfulfilled wish to have a baby turns her into an alcoholic and a drug addict. Then, a relations tragedy turns her global the wrong way up, forcing her out of the self-destructive cycle. along with her dual sister, she units out to check the chain of occasions that ended in her grandmother’s unforeseen demise. Their inquiry fast alterations right into a homicide research. because the twins discover new evidence of the crime, extra questions have to be spoke back. yet will they? A rural intrigue maintains to carry the villagers company in its grab till the very resolution.

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This title has been realised by a team of the following dedicated professionals:

Translated from the Belarusian by means of Jim Dingley,

Edited through Camilla Stein,

Maxim Hodak - Максим Ходак (Publisher),

Max Mendor - Макс Мендор (Director),

Yana Kovalskaya.