{"id":585971,"date":"2026-10-07T07:20:15","date_gmt":"2026-10-07T04:20:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=585971"},"modified":"2026-10-07T10:07:14","modified_gmt":"2026-10-07T07:07:14","slug":"spy-thriller-about-belarus-and-12-more-books-banned-in-belarus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/spy-thriller-about-belarus-and-12-more-books-banned-in-belarus","title":{"rendered":"Spy Thriller About Belarus and 12 More Books Banned in Belarus"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>Belarus\u2019s Ministry of Information has updated its list of \u201cprinted publications containing information and\/or materials whose dissemination may harm the national interests of the Republic of Belarus.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The list now includes <strong>Marc Levy\u2019s<\/strong> spy novel \u201cNoa.\u201d It had previously been <a href=\"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/spy-thriller-about-belarusian-dictatorship-declared-extremist-materials\">added<\/a> to the list of \u201cextremist materials.\u201d The novel is set in 2020-2022. In spring 2020, a housewife named Sviatlana\u00a0wins the presidential election after 27 years of rule by dictator Luchin. The security services take Sviatlana and her children abroad, while her husband Mikalai is sent to prison. Repression begins in Belarus. A journalist investigating corruption among the country\u2019s top leadership is killed in Minsk.<\/p>\n<p>The list also includes 12 more works:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u201cCrimes in Pictures for Children. Who Is to Blame?\u201d by <strong>Modesto Garcia<\/strong>,<\/li>\n<li>\u201cCrimes in Pictures: Murder or Suicide?\u201d by <strong>Modesto Garcia<\/strong>,<\/li>\n<li>\u201cShelter of Death&#8221; by <strong>Moral Atmaja<\/strong>,<\/li>\n<li>\u201cUnreliable Blood\u201d by <strong>Maria Solovyova<\/strong>,<\/li>\n<li>\u201cThe Illusion of Falling\u201d by <strong>Leah Astrum<\/strong>,<\/li>\n<li>\u201cThe Arachnid\u201d by <strong>I.V. Ophelia<\/strong>,<\/li>\n<li>\u201cCongruent\u201d by <strong>Veronica Desmond<\/strong>,<\/li>\n<li>\u201cThose Few Who Bring Death\u201d by <strong>Alexis Paton<\/strong>,<\/li>\n<li>\u201cThose Few Who Bring Darkness\u201d by <strong>Alexis Paton<\/strong>,<\/li>\n<li>\u201cDarling\u201d by <strong>C.J. Skuse<\/strong>,<\/li>\n<li>\u201cThe Room\u201d by <strong>Hubert Selby Jr.<\/strong>,<\/li>\n<li>\u201cThe Shadow List\u201d by <strong>Jade Presley<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The list maintained by the Ministry of Information now contains 271 works.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Belarus\u2019s Ministry of Information has updated its list of \u201cprinted publications containing information and\/or materials whose dissemination may harm the national interests of the Republic of Belarus.\u201d The list now includes Marc Levy\u2019s spy novel \u201cNoa.\u201d It had previously been added to the list of \u201cextremist materials.\u201d The novel is set in 2020-2022. In spring [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":492085,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sharing_image":{"poster":"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/6ac5efa713f14.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"Spy Thriller About Belarus and 12 More Books Banned in Belarus"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142375,142339,142338],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-585971","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-culture","category-main","category-news"],"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/585971","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/119"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=585971"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/585971\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":585980,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/585971\/revisions\/585980"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/492085"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=585971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=585971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=585971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}