Literary places in Minsk

Paranoia

Viktor Martinovich

A thinly veiled authoritarian Belarus, watched from every corner. A young writer's affair with the mistress of the state security minister plays out along the vast Stalinist spine of Independence Avenue, across Independence Square, in the shadow of the security headquarters, and by the slow curve of the Svislach. The map runs south to north through the centre of a real, surveilled Minsk.

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