Description
| Product ID: | 9781910895405 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | Alindarka's Children |
| Subtitle: | Things Will Be Bad |
| Authors: | Author: Alhierd Bacharevic, Petra Reid, Jim Dingley |
| Page Count: | 350 |
| Subjects: | Language and Linguistics, Language, Language acquisition, Fiction and Related items, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary, Thriller / suspense fiction, Adventure / action fiction, Human rights, civil rights, Language acquisition, Fiction & related items, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), Thriller / suspense, Adventure, Human rights |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating Alicia and her brother Avi are interned in a camp where children are taught to forget their mother tongue and speak the language of the coloniser. They escape into the Belarusian forest to go on an adult Hansel and Gretel adventure. The masterful English debut of Alhierd Bacharevic, a new voice from BelarusAlicia and her brother Avi are imprisoned in a camp on the edge of a forest where children are trained to forget their language through therapy, coercion, drugs, and larynx surgery. The Leid (or Belarusian language) is considered a sickness to be cured and replaced by the only pure form of language, the Lingo (Russian). A contemporary Hansel and Gretel adventure, the children escape into the forest and end up in even greater danger... A feat of translation, Bacharevic’s story is brilliantly rendered into English and Scots from Russian and Belarusian. |
| Imprint Name: | Scotland Street Press |
| Publisher Name: | Scotland Street Press |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2020-09-30 |