Viktor Pelevin’s Novel Banned in Belarus

The Ministry of Information has updated the “List of Printed Publications Containing Information Messages and (or) Materials Whose Distribution Is Capable of Harming the National Interests of the Republic of Belarus.” Another 16 publications have been added to the register.

Among them:

• “Smile – Pilgrim of the Soul: Poems, Translations” by Vladimir Khoroshko;
• “BDSM. Boundless Kindness, Compassion and Mercy” by Aleksandr Chashchin;
• “Your Mari” by Marianna Kramm;
• “Lessons in Sin” by Pam Godwin;
• “The Cannibal’s Diary. The Story of the Japanese Cannibal Who Gained Fame Instead of a Prison Term” by Issei Sagawa;
• “Prozac Nation” by Elizabeth Wurtzel;
• “Seven Petals” by Sergei Kuznetsov;
• “Amnesia of the Soul” by Tatyana Kogan;
• “The Lamp of Methuselah, or The Final Battle of the Chekists with the Masons” by Viktor Pelevin;
• “Please Kill Me! The Uncensored Oral History of Punk” by Legs McNeil and Gillian McCain;
• “The Song of Achilles” by Madeline Miller;
• “The Forest of the Dead” by Jean-Christophe Grangé;
• “Release” by Patrick Ness;
• “The Absolutist” by John Boyne;
• “Exquisite Corpse” by Poppy Brite;
• “Fistula” by Artem Serebryakov.