Sasha Filipenko launches the YouTube project “Solidarity Readings” in support of the protesters in Belarus

The novel of the Belarusian writer Sasha Filipenko “Former Son” will be read on the YouTube channel of the same name as a sign of solidarity with the protesters in Belarus. Readings will be performed by 30 iconic artists from Belarus, Russia and Ukraine. The writer himself informed the Insider about this.

Every day - from July 19 to August 2 - 2 excerpts from the novel performed by Andrei Makarevich, Ksenia Rappoport, Lyavona Volski, Veniamin Smekhova, Alexander Filippenko, Naviband, Evgeny Zatchkin, Leonid Parfenova, Katerina Gordeeva and many others will be published.

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Solidarity readings are conceived as a action of solidarity with Belarusians, which now more actively express their natural right to freedom of statements and choice.

The plot of the book is based on real events and begins with a terrible crush, as a result of which dozens of people died, and the main character fell into a coma for 10 years. Almost the entire novel is dedicated to a long and touching story of a grandmother's care about his grandson, who is in a metaphorical dream against which the country lived its strange life. Unconditional love and hope, which dies the last or never dies.

“The novel is quite accurately described by the realities of the Belarusian reality of the last decades. Fortunately or unfortunately written in 2012, the former son is still resonating with her, ”Filipenko explained.

Sasha Filipenko - Belarusian prose writer. The author of the novels “Red Cross”, “Half”, “Former Son”, “Premises”, “Return to the Ostrog”. His books are translated into French, German, Czech, Hungarian, Polish, Italian, English, Croatian, Dutch, Spanish and Japanese.