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Uladzimir Arlov is a Belarusian writer, author of numerous prose and poetry books, historical essays and essays.

This collection includes the mystical love story & laquo;Landscape with Menthol Aroma», the anti-colonial & laquo;Siberian Tale», biographical short fiction from the cycle & laquo;Polotsk Stories» and the ironic dystopia & laquo;Order of the White Mouse».

The biographical texts, written from the author's childhood and student days, are a journey through time and space of Soviet Belarus, and some of their characters, despite the fact that they are acquaintances, friends, neighbours or classmates of the author, seem to have stepped out of a criminal chronicle column. These memories from the past, as well as the dystopian novel The Order of the White Mouse, will help us understand what processes are taking place in modern Belarus, the state of the Belarusian language, and whether citizens have a choice and freedom of speech.

In contrast, «The Menthol Scented Landscape» is almost devoid of characters. It is an esoteric story about an ideal woman, for whom a man has to pay dearly for his love.