Alindarka’s Children by Alhierd Bacharevič, translated by Jim Dingley and Petra Reid caucasus From the magnetic cruelty of

From the magnetic cruelty of mob boss Benya Krik to the devastating account of a young Jewish boy caught up in a pogrom

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Clive Franklin

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Alindarka’s Children by Alhierd Bacharevič, translated by Jim Dingley and Petra Reid caucasus From the magnetic cruelty ofAlindarkas Children (Dzieci Alindarkiis, 2014) is a contemporary novel about a brother and a sister interned in a camp. There, camp leaders make children forget their own language and speak the language of the colonizer. To achieve this, leaders use drugs as well as surgery on the larynx to cure the illness of using the Belarusian language. When Alicia and Avi manage to escape, camp leaders pursue them. Now, the children have to survive for themselves